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More stable liposomes for drug delivery, and substances for controlling prostaglandin levels, may result from the interesting observation reported here: phospholipids like 1, which contain bulky alkyl substituents in the first half of their fatty acid residues, are much less readily hydrolyzed by phospholipase A2 than distearoylphosphatidylcholine itself.
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Menger et al. (1989) studied this question.
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