1st Edition

Freeze-Fracture Studies of Membranes

By Sek Wen Hui Copyright 1989
229 Pages
by CRC Press

229 Pages
by CRC Press

This volume is a kind of celebration of the progress of freeze-fracture electron microscopy in recent years. Many of the authors are leaders of the advancing front. Instead of offering an instruction manual of how to perform new techniques or a review to recover what has happened in the past in respect fields, both which are abundantly available as journal articles and monographs, this volume is a... Read more
1. Freeze-Fracture Images: 1967-1971 2. Membrane-Splitting Analyses of Membrane-spanning Proteins 3. Labelling Intramembrane Particles in Freeze-Fracture Replicas 4. Distribution and Mobility of Receptors in the Plasma Membrane 5. Freeze-Fracture Sterol Localisation with Filipin 6. Polymorphic Phase Behaviour of Membrane Lipids 7. The Kinetics of Artificially Induced Membrane Fusion 8. Freeze-Fracture (-Etching) Analysis of Exo-Endocytosis 9. The Vitelline Layer and Fertilization Envelope of Echinoderm and Amphibian Eggs: Visualisation of a Cell Surface-Anchored Extracellular Matrix 10. The Plasma Membrane of Spermatozoon

Biography

Sek Wen Hui