Lipid Rafts and Caveolae, edited by C.J. Fielding, falls into a familiar genre within academic publishing — a selection of researchers within a particular field are invited to write a chapter.

Mass spectrometry analysis of the lipid composition ... vesicles with a liquid-ordered 'raft-like' phase and a liquid-disordered phase. After adding sphingomyelinase, small vesicles start to ...

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