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Pressure effect on the bilayer phase transition of asymmetric lipids with an unsaturated acyl chain

Kaori Tada1, Masaki Goto, Nobutake Tamai

  • 1Department of Biological Science and Technology, The University of Tokushima, Japan.

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
|March 18, 2010
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