Complexity of lipid domains and rafts in giant unilamellar vesicles revealed by combining imaging and microscopic and macroscopic time-resolved fluorescence

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 539-553

  De Almeida, Rodrigo F M ^a,b,c   Borst, Janwillem ^a   Fedorov, Alexander ^c   Prieto, Manuel ^c   Visser, Antonie J W G ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; DIOLEOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; DIOLEOYLPHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; DIPALMITOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; FLUORESCENT DYE; LIPID; PHOSPHOLIPID; RHODAMINE;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HISTOGRAM; LASER; LIPID RAFT; MEMBRANE VESICLE; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPE IMAGE; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34447326993     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.098822     Document Type: Article

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