Chapter 9 On the Nature of Lipid Rafts: Insights from Molecularly Detailed Simulations of Model Biological Membranes Containing Mixtures of Cholesterol and Phospholipids

Current Topics in Membranes

Volumn 60, Issue , 2008, Pages 257-279

  Berkowitz, Max ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

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EID: 45849094043     PISSN: 10635823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1063-5823(08)00009-4     Document Type: Review

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