Preparation of giant unilamellar vesicles from damp lipid film for better lipid compositional uniformity

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes

Volumn 1818, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2598-2604

  Baykal Caglar, Eda ^a   Hassan Zadeh, Ebrahim ^a   Saremi, Bahar ^a   Huang, Juyang ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; Electroformation; Lipid demixing; Miscibility transition temperature; Umbrella Model

Indexed keywords

1,2 DIPHYTANOYL SN GLYCERO 3 PHOSPHOCHOLINE; 1,2 DISTEAROYL SN GLYCERO 3 PHOSPHOCHOLINE; 1,2 DPALMITOYL SN GLYCERO 3 PHOSPHOCHOLINE; DIOLEOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID MEMBRANE; LIPID SOLUBILITY; LIPID VESICLE; MISCIBILITY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

LIPIDS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84864071848     PISSN: 00052736     EISSN: 18792642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2012.05.023     Document Type: Article

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