Lipids in Health and Disease

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Quinn, Peter J. (Editor), Wang, Xiaoyuan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Series: Subcellular Biochemistry, 49
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Biochemistry.; Lipids.; Biomedicine.; Human Physiology.; Biomedicine general.; Biochemistry, general.; Lipidology.

Lipids are functionally versatile molecules. They have evolved from relatively simple hydrocarbons that serve as depot storages of metabolites and barriers to the permeation of solutes into complex compounds that perform a variety of signalling functions in higher organisms. This volume is devoted t...