Water permeability of asymmetric planar lipid bilayers: Leaflets of different composition offer independent and additive resistances to permeation

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 333-339

  Krylov, Andrey V ^a   Pohl, Peter ^a   Zeidel, Mark L ^b   Hill, Warren G ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR MOLEKULARE PHARMAKOLOGIE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apical membrane; Barrier function; Cell membrane permeability; Fluidity; MDCK cells

Indexed keywords

LIPOSOME; UREA;

ANIMAL CELL; APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; LIPID BILAYER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROELECTRODE; NONHUMAN; STEADY STATE; WATER PERMEABILITY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DOGS; LIPID BILAYERS; LIPOSOMES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PERMEABILITY; WATER;

EID: 0034769264     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.118.4.333     Document Type: Article

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