Study of PEGylated lipid layers as a model for PEGylated liposome surfaces: Molecular dynamics simulation and langmuir monolayer studies

Langmuir

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 7788-7798

  Stepniewski, Michał ^a,b   Pasenkiewicz Gierula, Marta ^b   Rog, Tomasz ^c,d   Danne, Reinis ^c   Orlowski, Adam ^b,c   Karttunen, Mikko ^d   Urtti, Arto ^a   Yliperttula, Marjo ^a   Vuorimaa, Elina ^c   Bunker, Alex ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BI-LAYER; BLOOD PLASMA; DRUG DELIVERY DEVICES; GEL MEMBRANES; GEL STATE; HYDROPHILIC POLYMERS; IONIC ENVIRONMENT; LANGMUIR MONOLAYERS; LIPID CORES; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE; MD SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; PEGYLATED LIPIDS; PEGYLATED LIPOSOMES; PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION; PHYSIOLOGICAL LEVELS; SALT CONCENTRATION; SALT IONS; STERIC INTERACTIONS; SURFACE LAYERS;

BLOOD; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DRUG DELIVERY; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ETHYLENE; EXPERIMENTS; GELS; GLYCOLS; LIPID BILAYERS; LIQUIDS; MEMBRANES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONOLAYERS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

LIPID; LIPOSOME; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SURFACE PROPERTY;

LIPIDS; LIPOSOMES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 79959225816     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la200003n     Document Type: Article

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