Fluorescent sterols as tools in membrane biophysics and cell biology

Chemistry and Physics of Lipids

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-25

  Wüstner, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; Fluorescence; Imaging; Kinetics; Membrane transport; Microscopy

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL ESTER; DEHYDROERGOSTEROL; ERGOSTEROL; STEROL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BILAYER MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL TRANSPORT; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIPID COMPOSITION; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECTROSCOPY; STEROL METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BIOPHYSICS; CELL MEMBRANE; CHOLESTEROL; ERGOSTEROL; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENT DYES; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; STEROLS;

EID: 33846867956     PISSN: 00093084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2006.12.004     Document Type: Review

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