GUV preparation and imaging: Minimizing artifacts

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes

Volumn 1798, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1324-1332

  Morales Penningston, Nelson F ^a   Wu, Jing ^a   Farkas, Elaine R ^b   Goh, Shih Lin ^a   Konyakhina, Tatyana M ^a   Zheng, Judy Y ^a   Webb, Watt W ^b   Feigenson, Gerald W ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Budding vesicle; Complementary dye; Electrode; Electroformation; Gentle hydration; Giant unilamellar vesicle; ITO; Light induced; Lipid peroxidation; Phase boundary shift

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; SCAVENGER;

ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; COOLING; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HYDRATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MEMBRANE BINDING; MEMBRANE MODEL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; OSMOSIS; PHASE SEPARATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; REVIEW; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

BACTERIA; CELL MEMBRANE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; UNILAMELLAR LIPOSOMES; VIRUSES;

EID: 77954816768     PISSN: 00052736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2010.03.011     Document Type: Review

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