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Advances in Physical Chemistry
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 360239, 8 pages
Study of Bovine Serum Albumin Solubility in Aqueous Solutions by Intrinsic Viscosity Measurements
Instituto de Física Aplicada-CONICET, Facultad de Química, Bioquímica y Farmacia, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Área de Química Física, Chacabuco 917, 5700 San Luis, Argentina
Received 25 March 2013; Accepted 9 May 2013
Academic Editor: Sylvio Canuto
Copyright © 2013 Martin Alberto Masuelli. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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