Formation and maintenance of tubular membrane projections: Experiments and numerical calculations

BioSystems

Volumn 93, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 115-119

  Umeda, Tamiki ^a   Inaba, Takehiko ^b   Ishijima, Akihiko ^c   Takiguchi, Kingo ^d   Hotani, Hirokazu ^e  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bending elasticity; Laser tweezer; Liposome; Membrane tube; Simulation; Vesicle

Indexed keywords

LIPOSOME;

ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; MEMBRANE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; ELASTICITY; LIPID MEMBRANE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROTUBULE;

CITRUS LIMON;

EID: 46849122681     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2008.03.005     Document Type: Article

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