Ceramides in the skin lipid membranes: Length matters

Langmuir

Volumn 29, Issue 50, 2013, Pages 15624-15633

  Školová, Barbora ^a   Januìššová, Barbora ^a   Zbytovská, Jarmila ^a,b   Gooris, Gert ^c   Bouwstra, Joke ^c   Slepička, Petr ^b   Berka, Pavel ^a   Roh, Jaroslav ^a   Palát, Karel ^a   Hrabálek, Alexandr ^a   Vávrová, Kateřina ^a  

^a Charles University in Prague Faculty of Pharmacy   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CHOLESTEROL SULFATES; LAMELLAR PERIODICITY; LANGMUIR MONOLAYERS; LIPID MEMBRANES; LIPID STRUCTURES; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; STRUCTURAL REQUIREMENTS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHAINS; CHOLESTEROL; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PHASE SEPARATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CERAMIDES;

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CERAMIDE; FATTY ACID; MEMBRANE LIPID;

ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; SKIN; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALS; CERAMIDES; FATTY ACIDS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; SKIN; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84890766791     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la4037474     Document Type: Article

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