Laurdan fluorescence spectroscopy reveals a single liquid-crystalline lipid phase and lack of thermotropic phase transitions in the plasma membrane of living human sperm

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes

Volumn 1279, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 197-202

  Palleschi, Simonetta ^a   Silvestroni, Leopoldo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Generalized polarization; Human spermatozoon; Laurdan; Lipid phase; Membrane; Polarization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0029879404     PISSN: 00052736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(95)00250-2     Document Type: Article

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