Two years later, Japanese electron microscopist Eichi Yamada coined the term “caveolae,” from the Latin for “little caves,” to describe these invaginations. Caveolae have since turned up in several ...

Data from recent studies have led scientists to suspect that caveolae may have a role in buffering changes in cell membrane tension by changing their conformation. Indeed, membrane tension causes ...

Caveolae: Not just a structural support As well as physically protecting adipocytes, caveolae also play an essential role in coordinating cell metabolism. Prof. del Pozo Barriuso explained that ...

Lipid Rafts and Caveolae, edited by C.J. Fielding, falls into a familiar genre within academic publishing — a selection of researchers within a particular field are invited to write a chapter.

We discover the ability of the EC caveolae pumping system to outpace scavenging and deliver NPs rapidly and specifically into the lungs." The researchers carried out various experiments where they ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. With the aim of finding targets that could be used to exploit caveolae for drug delivery, Oh et al. used proteomics to identify proteins ...