Some electron microscopical observations on liquid-crystalline phases in lipid-water systems.
OsO(4) 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.
D004583:Electrons; D006652:Histological Techniques; D008055:Lipids / Q000737:chemistry*; D008853:Microscopy; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D010743:Phospholipids; D014867:Water; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction
D008055:Lipids; D010743:Phospholipids; D014867:Water
HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; LIPIDS/chemistry; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON