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Kinetics of CPPs Cellular Uptake

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No doubt that careful characterization of kinetics of chemical reactions i.e. the study of rates of chemical processes has for a long time yielded valuable information about the mechanisms of these reactions. Such information is certainly more obvious for the well-defined chemical reactions where the number of reaction components as well and the reaction conditions are known.

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Langel, Ü. (2019). Kinetics of CPPs Cellular Uptake. In: CPP, Cell-Penetrating Peptides. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8747-0_8

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