Lipids function as essential structural components of membranes, as signalling molecules, as chemical identifiers of specific membranes and as energy storage molecules. The synthesis of lipids is ...

Lipids are the main component of cellular membranes. They are highly diverse in structure, and the distribution of different lipids and their species (membrane lipid composition) varies at the ...

Every cell can create thousands of different lipids. However, little is known how this chemical lipid diversity contributes to the transport of messages within the cell, in other words, the lipid code ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 113, No. 49 (December 6, 2016), pp. 14025-14030 (6 pages) Our understanding of membranes and membrane lipid ...

The body has to clear away dead cells and other unnecessary or unneeded stuff, and one mechanism that is crucial to the ...

New understandings of how lipids function within tears could lead to better drugs for treating dry eye disease. A new approach has given Hokkaido University researchers insight into the synthesis and ...

Obesity and obesity-associated diseases, such as type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular diseases, have reached pandemic levels worldwide and are major threats to human life. Lipid species within ...

Adjusting the lipid asymmetry of the membrane is important to the immune cells functioning, found research team. A cell's membrane is its natural barrier between the inside of a cell and the outside ...

Multidrug resistance (MDR) is a major obstacle in cancer therapy. It results from different mechanisms; among them is P-glycoprotein (P-gp)-mediated drug efflux out of cells. The mechanism of action ...

New understandings of how lipids function within tears could lead to better drugs for treating dry eye disease. A new approach has given Hokkaido University researchers insight into the synthesis and ...

Dublin, Jan. 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Nutritional Lipids Market - Types, Sources, Forms and Applications" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. This global report on ...