What's so special about cholesterol?

Lipids

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1101-1113

  Mouritsen, Ole G ^a   Zuckermann, Martin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DIFFUSION; FLUIDITY; LIPIDS; MEMBRANES; PLASMAS;

ERGOSTEROL; EUKARYOTES; MECHANICAL COHERENCE; PLASMA MEMBRANES; PROKARYOTES;

CHOLESTEROL;

CHOLESTEROL; ERGOSTEROL; LANOSTEROL; LIPID; PHYTOSTEROL;

CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIFFUSION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; LIPID MEMBRANE; LIPID RAFT; LIQUID; MECHANICS; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PHASE TRANSITION;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CHOLESTEROL; EVOLUTION; GENOMICS;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 12344270987     PISSN: 00244201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11745-004-1336-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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