SOME ELECTRON MICROSCOPICAL OBSERVATIONS ON LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE PHASES IN LIPID-WATER SYSTEMS

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1 February 1962

journal article
research article
Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of cell biology

Vol. 12 (2) , 221-229
https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.12.2.221

Abstract

OsO₄ fixation preserves some liquid-crystalline phases of soaps and phospholipids to an extent that it is possible to observe their structure in electron micrographs of thin sections. Good agreement exists between the structure observed directly and that deduced from x-ray diffraction studies of the same systems.

Keywords

HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES
LIPIDS/CHEMISTRY
MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON

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