Deformability of multilamellar vesicles

General Physiology and Biophysics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 89-97

  Richterova M ^a   Lisý, Vladimír ^a  

^a P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Deformation energy; Effective surface tension; Multilamellar vesicle

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILAYER MEMBRANE; CYTOPLASM VESICLE; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY TRANSFER; LAMELLAR BODY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; ONION; SURFACE TENSION; THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; LIPID BILAYERS; LIPOSOMES; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SURFACE TENSION;

ALLIUM CEPA;

EID: 19144367379     PISSN: 02315882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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