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A Quantitative Analytical Method to Test for Salt Effects on Giant Unilamellar Vesicles
Get PDFToday, free-standing membranes, i.e. liposomes and vesicles, are used in a multitude of
applications, e.g. as drug delivery devices and artificial cell models. Because current
laboratory techniques do not allow handling of large sample sizes, systematic and
quantitative studies on the impact of different effectors, e.g. electrolytes, are limited.
In this work, we evaluated the Hofmeister effects of ten alkali metal halides on giant
unilamellar vesicles made of palmitoyloleoylphosphatidylcholine for a large sample size by
combining the highly parallel water-in-oil emulsion transfer vesicle preparation method with
automatic haemocytometry. We found that this new quantitative screening method is highly
reliable and consistent with previously reported results. Thus, this method may provide a
significant methodological advance in analysis of effects on free-standing model
membranes
The Effect of pH on the Electrical Capacitance of Phosphatidylcholine–Phosphatidylserine System in Bilayer Lipid Membrane
Get PDFAssessment of eating disorders with the diabetes eating problems survey – revised (DEPS-R) in a representative sample of insulin-treated diabetic patients: a validation study in Italy
Full text linkMeasuring the quality of dying and death in advanced cancer: Item characteristics and factor structure of the Quality of Dying and Death Questionnaire
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