title: Caveolae--from ultrastructure to molecular mechanisms.
abstract: Almost 50 years after the first sighting of small pits that covered the surface of mammalian cells, investigators are now getting to grips with the detailed workings of these enigmatic structures that we now know as caveolae.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Molecular Bioscience and Centre for Functional and Applied Genomics, Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, and School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Australia. R.Parton@imb.uq.edu.au
authors.forename: Robert G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Parton
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport; D021941:Caveolae / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D022461:Caveolins / Q000502:physiology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D018345:Mice, Knockout; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D022461:Caveolins