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Advances in planar lipid bilayers and liposomes. Volume 13 /
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 mu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, UK ; Waltham, MA :
Academic Press,
2011.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Front Cover; Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Chapter 1: Lipid and Membrane Dynamics in Biological Tissues-Infrared Spectroscopic Studies; 1. Introduction; 2. Historical View of Vibrational Spectroscopic Studies on Lipids and Membrane Dynamics in Biological Tissues; 3. Membrane Lipids and Fatty Acids in Human Tissues; 4. Skin and Hair Lipids and Membranes; 5. Future Perspectives and Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 2: Mechanical Properties of Bilayer Lipid Membranes and Protein-Lipid Interactions; 1. Introduction
- 2. Mechanical Properties of BLMs and Their Anisotropy3. The Mechanical Properties of Lipid Bilayers with Incorporated Proteins; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 3: Cytoskeletal Reorganization of Red Blood Cell Shape: Curling of Free Edges and Malaria Merozoites; 1. Curling of Red Blood Cell Shape; 2. Cytoskeleton-Induced Membrane Curvature; 3. The Model for Curling of RBCs; 4. Numerical Simulations; 5. Malaria Merozoites and Ca2+ Dynamics; 6. The Model for RBC and Malaria Merozoite Interaction Prior to Invasion; 7. Modeling the Egress of Malaria Merozoites; 8. Conclusions
- Appendix Curling GhostsReferences; Chapter 4: Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion in Biomembranes...; 1. Introduction; 2. Engineering Principles; 3. A Simple Pigment-Containing Model BLM System; 4. Bacteriorhodopsin: A Natural Light-Driven Proton Pump; 5. Oriented Dipole Mechanism Versus ICT Mechanism; 6. DC Photoelectric Effect; 7. Applications of DC Photoelectric Effect in Artificial Solar Energy Conversion; 8. Concluding Summary; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 5: A Multiparametric Fluorescence Approach for Biomembrane Studies; 1. Introduction
- 2. Visualization of Lipid Domains in Model Membranes3. Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging is Sensitive to Lipid Phase and Intermolecular Interactions; 4. Order and Fluidity of Lipid Bilayers as Measured Using Fluorescence Polarization Imaging; 5. Translation Diffusion Kinetics of Lipid and Cholesterol Analogs are Sensitive to Phase Domains in Lipid Bilayers...; 6. Conclusion and Outlook; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 6: Electromechanical Basis for the Interaction Between Osteoblasts and Negatively Charged Titanium Surface
- 1. Role of Positively Charged Macroions in the Interaction Between an Implant Surface and Osteoblastic Cells2. On the Origin of the Initial Attraction Between can Osteoblast and a Ti Implant Surface; 3. Functional Effects of a Ti Implant Surface Topography on the Osteointegration; 4. Conclusions; References; Subject Index