Polyene antibiotic amphotericin B in monomolecular layers: spectrophotometric and scanning force microscopic analysis
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عنوان ژورنال: FEBS Letters
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0014-5793
DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(02)03009-0