Abstract
Although there is much to suggest that biological membranes have a lipoprotein character, their actual composition and structure has not been established beyond question. The electron microscopic image of these membranes is usually a thin, dense line splitting at higher resolution into two; but this image itself tells us little about the nature of the membrane except that it reacts strongly with various fixatives. A review of these matters has been given by Robertson (4).
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Mercer, E.H. (1960). Artificial models of biological membranes. In: Bargmann, W., Möllenstedt, G., Niehrs, H., Peters, D., Ruska, E., Wolpers, C. (eds) Vierter Internationaler Kongress für Elektronenmikroskopie / Fourth International Conference on Electron Microscopy / Quatrième Congrès International de Microscopie Électronique. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49764-3_33
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