Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci
October 1981
Liposomes 0.5 to 5 micron in diameter and of various phospholipid compositions were used as a simplified model of rod outer segment membranes to examine the phagocytic mechanism of cultured explants of retinal dystrophic Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) and normal Long-Evans (LE) rat pigment epithelium. RCS pigment epithelium explants phagocytized liposomes composed of phosphatidylserine (pS) plus phosphatidylinositol (pI).
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