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. 1978 May;75(5):2258–2260. doi: 10.1073/pnas.75.5.2258

Nature of the gel to liquid crystal transition of synthetic phosphatidylcholines.

N Albon, J M Sturtevant
PMCID: PMC392531  PMID: 276866

Abstract

High sensitivity differential scanning calorimetry is employed in the study of the gel to liquid crystal phase transition of a highly purified sample of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine in multilamellar bilayer suspension. It is concluded from the calorimetric data that the purity of the sample is better than 99.94 mol % and that the transition closely approximates an isothermal first-order transition.

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