Stiffening effect of cholesterol on disordered lipid phases: A combined neutron spin echo + dynamic light scattering analysis of the bending elasticity of large unilamellar vesicles

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3629-3637

  Arriaga, Laura R ^a   López Montero, Iván ^a   Monroy, Francisco ^a   Orts Gil, Guillermo ^b   Farago, Bela ^c   Hellweg, Thomas ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; 1-PALMITOYL-2-OLEOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; 2 OLEOYL 1 PALMITOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; LIPOSOME; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE;

ARTICLE; ELASTICITY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEASUREMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; CHOLESTEROL; ELASTICITY; LIGHT; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; THERMODYNAMICS; UNILAMELLAR LIPOSOMES;

EID: 67650363917     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.01.045     Document Type: Article

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