Asymmetric lipid membranes: Towards more realistic model systems

Membranes

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 180-196

  Marquardt, Drew ^a,b   Geier, Barbara ^a,b   Pabst, Georg ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b BIOTECHMED GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Model membranes; Phospholipids; Vesicles

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; PHOSPHOLIPIDS;

ASYMMETRY; BI-LAYER; LIPID MEMBRANES; MODEL MEMBRANES; MODEL SYSTEM; REALISTIC MODEL SYSTEM; VESICLES;

LIPOSOMES;

EID: 84929310221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20770375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/membranes5020180     Document Type: Review

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