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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 28.
Published in final edited form as: Foods. 2016 Jan 12;5(1):7. doi: 10.3390/foods5010007
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons by Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Schematic drawing showing the location of the xanthophyll molecule in the cholesterol-rich and cholesterol-poor membrane domains. An unfavorable interaction with cholesterol in the cholesterol-rich domain is indicated.