Key Features
* Incorporates contributions from newcomers and established and experienced researchers
* Explores the planar lipid bilayer systems and spherical liposomes from both theoretical and experimental perspectives
* Serves as an indispensable source of information for new scientists
Description
Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes volumes cover a broad range of topics, including main arrangements of the reconstituted system, namely planar lipid bilayers as well as spherical liposomes. The invited authors present the latest results of their own research groups in this exciting multidisciplinary field.
Readership
Chemical Engineers, physical chemists, biologists and biochemists, biochemical engineers
Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes, 1st Edition
- Giant Vesicles: A Biomimetic Tool for Membrane Characterization
Rumiana Dimova
- Low-Frequency Sound Propagation in Lipid Membranes
Lars D. Mosgaard, Andrew D. Jackson and Thomas Heimburg
- Interactions of Biopolymer Chitosan with Plasma Membrane in Biomedical Applications
Peter Veranic, Andreja Erman and Mojca Kerec-Kos
- Single-Chain Bolaphospholipids: Temperature-Dependent Self-Assembly and Mixing Behavior with Phospholipids
Annette Meister and Alfred Blume
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Dynamics of Heterogeneity in Fluid Membranes
Shigeyuki Komura, Sanoop Ramachandran, Kazuhiko Seki and Masayuki Imai
- Lipid Microdomains - Structure, Function, and Controversies
Lucyna Mrówczynska
- Polyelectrolytes and Surfactants in Aqueous Solutions: From Dilute to Concentrated Systems
Ksenija Kogej
- Implications of Microvesicle and Cell-Surface Protein Shedding for Biomarker Studies, Cancerogenesis and Therapeutic Target Discovery in Ovarian Cancer
Katarina Cerne and Borut Kobal
- A Comparison of the Hodgkin-Huxley Model and the Soliton Theory for the Action Potential in Nerves
Revathi Appali, Ursula van Rienen and Thomas Heimburg
- Permeability of Phospholipid Membrane for Small Polar Molecules Determined from Osmotic Swelling of Giant Phospholipid Vesicles
Primoz Peterlin, Vesna Arrigler, Haim Diamant and Emir Haleva
