Quantitative optical microscopy and micromanipulation studies on the lipid bilayer membranes of giant unilamellar vesicles

Chemistry and Physics of Lipids

Volumn 181, Issue , 2014, Pages 99-120

  Bagatolli, Luis A ^a   Needham, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence microscopy; Membrane lateral structure; Membrane mechanics; Micropiette aspiration

Indexed keywords

AZOLECTIN; FLUORESCENT DYE; GIANT UNILAMELLAR VESICLE; LIPOSOME; LUNG SURFACTANT; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHATIDYLGLYCEROL; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE; POLYPROPYLENE; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LIPID BILAYER;

ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; BIOPHYSICS; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COVALENT BOND; CRITICAL MICELLE CONCENTRATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; ELASTICITY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ENTROPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HYDRATION; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; IONIC STRENGTH; LIGAND BINDING; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID MEMBRANE; LIPID MONOLAYER; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MICROMANIPULATION; MICROPIPETTE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE SEPARATION; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHEAR RATE; STRATUM CORNEUM; TENSILE STRENGTH; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; WATER PERMEABILITY; YOUNG MODULUS; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; MICROTECHNOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

CELL MEMBRANE; HUMANS; LIPID BILAYERS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTECHNOLOGY; UNILAMELLAR LIPOSOMES;

EID: 84901608187     PISSN: 00093084     EISSN: 18732941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2014.02.009     Document Type: Review

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