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Adjimatera, N., Neal, A.P., Blagbrough, I.S. (2005). Fluorescence Techniques in Non-Viral Gene Therapy. In: Hof, M., Hutterer, R., Fidler, V. (eds) Fluorescence Spectroscopy in Biology. Springer Series on Fluorescence, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27004-3_12

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