Giant unilamellar vesicles - a perfect tool to visualize phase separation and lipid rafts in model systems

Acta Biochimica Polonica

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-39

  Wesołowska, Olga ^a   Michalak, Krystyna ^a   Maniewska, Jadwiga ^a   Hendrich, Andrzej B ^a  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Giant unilamellar vesicles; Lipid rafts; Model membranes; Phase separation

Indexed keywords

EID: 67249136866     PISSN: 0001527X     EISSN: 1734154X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18388/abp.2009_2514     Document Type: Short Survey

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