A comparative study of the effects of cholesterol and sclareol, a bioactive labdane type diterpene, on phospholipid bilayers

Chemistry and Physics of Lipids

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 125-134

  Kyrikou, I ^a   Georgopoulos, A ^b   Hatziantoniou, S ^b   Mavromoustakos, T ^a   Demetzos, C ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Greece)

^b School of Pharmacy   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; Differential scanning calorimetry; DPPC bilayers; Liposomes; Sclareol

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; DIPALMITOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; DITERPENE; SCLAREOL; WATER;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG STABILITY; DRUG STRUCTURE; ENTHALPY; FLUIDIZATION; HYDRATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIPOPHILICITY; NONHUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; PHOSPHOLIPID BILAYER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUBILITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

1,2-DIPALMITOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CHOLESTEROL; DITERPENES; LIPID BILAYERS; LIPOSOMES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHASE TRANSITION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 11844255666     PISSN: 00093084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2004.09.021     Document Type: Article

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