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After decades in which phospholipids were considered as inconvenient, impure mixtures of intractable materials, claiming the attention of only a few devotees (Klenk, Levene) the era commencing in about 1950 has been one of intense fundamental research on their nature, metabolism and function in animals, micro-organisms and plants.
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Ansell, G.B. (1987). Overview on Phospholipids: Chemistry, Nomenclature and Analytical Methodology. In: Hanin, I., Ansell, G.B. (eds) Lecithin. Advances in Behavioral Biology, vol 33. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1933-8_1
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