There are three types of pathways: Caveolae are small invaginations of the cell's plasma membrane. Under the electron microscope, caveolae look to be flask-shape pits about 50-80 nm across.

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.

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 ...

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 ...