Effect of cholesterol and ergosterol on the compressibility and volume fluctuations of phospholipid-sterol bilayers in the critical point region: A molecular acoustic and calorimetric study

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3538-3548

  Krivanek, Roland ^a   Okoro, Linus ^a   Winter, Roland ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; DIPALMITOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; ERGOSTEROL; PHOSPHOLIPID;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DRUG EFFECT; FLOW KINETICS; HEAT; LIPID BILAYER; PHASE TRANSITION; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRASOUND;

1,2-DIPALMITOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CHOLESTEROL; ERGOSTEROL; HEAT; LIPID BILAYERS; PHASE TRANSITION; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; RHEOLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 43649097983     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.122549     Document Type: Article

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