Stable and unstable lipid domains in ceramide-containing membranes

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2160-2168

  Boulgaropoulos, Beate ^a   Arsov, Zoran ^b   Laggner, Peter ^a   Pabst, Georg ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

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EID: 79959736474     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.03.013     Document Type: Article

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