Lipid membrane phase behaviour elucidated in real time by controlled environment atomic force microscopy

Journal of Electron Microscopy

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-9

  Tokumasu, Fuyuki ^a   Jin, Albert J ^b   Dvorak, James A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

1,2 dimyristoyl sn glycero 3 phosphocholine; Atomic force microscopy; Mean field theory; Membrane; Phase transition; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; LIPIDS; MEAN FIELD THEORY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; TEMPERATURE;

1,2-DIMYRISTOYL-SN-GLYCERO-3-PHOSPHOCHOLINE; ATOMIC FORCE; ATOMIC-FORCE-MICROSCOPY; DIMYRISTOYL; LIPID MEMBRANES; MEAN-FIELD THEORIES; MEMBRANE PHASE BEHAVIOR; NANODOMAIN; PHOSPHOCHOLINE; REAL- TIME;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY;

DIMYRISTOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; LIPID;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTATION; KINETICS; LIPID BILAYER; METHODOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

DIMYRISTOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; KINETICS; LIPID BILAYERS; LIPIDS; MEMBRANE MICRODOMAINS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0036215265     PISSN: 00220744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmicro/51.1.1     Document Type: Article

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