Membrane burdens of chlorinated benzenes lower the main phase transition temperature in dipalmitoyl-phosphatidylcholine vesicles: Implications for toxicity by narcotic chemicals

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 203-212

  Van Wezel, Annemarie P ^a,b   Cornelissen, Gerard ^a   Van Kees Miltenburg, J ^a   Opperhuizen, Antoon ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management RIKZ   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Membrane burdens; Narcosis; Phospholipid water partitioning; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

1,2 DICHLOROBENZENE; 1,2,4,5 TETRACHLOROBENZENE; 1,3 DICHLOROBENZENE; 1,4 DICHLOROBENZENE; CHLOROBENZENE; DIPALMITOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; LIPID; NARCOTIC AGENT; PENTACHLOROBENZENE; PHOSPHOLIPID; TRICHLOROBENZENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CELL MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; LETHALITY; MEMBRANE; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PHOSPHOLIPID VESICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TOXICITY;

EID: 0030022688     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1996)015<0203:MBOCBL>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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