A theoretical model for the association probabilities of saturated phospholipids from two-component bilayer lipid membranes

Acta Biotheoretica

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 347-368

  Movileanu, Liviu ^a   Popescu, Dumitru ^b  

^a TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Bilayer lipid membrane; Binary mixtures; Dipole dipole interaction; Phospholipid domains; Saturated phospholipids; Selective association processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032449638     PISSN: 00015342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1001895102436     Document Type: Article

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