Electrical Properties of Model Lipid Membranes

• Autore: Naumowicz Monika
• Pubblicazione: Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (160 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Biology, life sciences; Research & information: general
• Soggetto non controllato: acid-base equilibria; adhesion of lipid vesicles; bicelles; capacitance; channel-like event; cholesterol; cinnamic acid; dipole moments; dipole potential; drug-membrane interaction; dynamic light scattering; electric double layer; electric surface potential; electrochemical impedance spectroscopy; electrochemistry; electrophoretic light scattering; erythrocytes; fatal ethyl alcohol poisoning; ferulic acid; FTIR spectroscopy; gold electrode; hydrophobic pores; Langmuir monolayers; lipid bilayer elasticity; lipid bilayer electrostatics; lipid bilayers; lipid vesicle shapes; liposomes; membrane biophysical study; membrane structure; microelectrophoresis; n/a; orientational degree of freedom of lipid headgroups; orientational ordering of water dipoles; osmotic pressure; p-coumaric acid; phenolic compound; phospholipid bilayers; phospholipids; planar lipid bilayer; planar lipid membrane; platelets; polymers; relative permittivity; resveratrol; self-assembly; sucrose; supported lipid membranes; surface charge density; thrombocytes; voltage breakdown; water pores; zwitterionic lipid bilayers
• Persona (resp. second.): NaumowiczMonika
• Sommario/riassunto: Biological membranes are essential components of the living systems and processes occurring with their participation are related mainly to electric phenomena, such as signal transduction, the existence of membrane potentials, and transport through the membrane. It is well known that the universal model of the cell membrane structure is the lipid bilayer, which constitutes the environment for integral and surface membrane proteins. Thus, much attention has been given to the study of the organization and properties of these structures concerning both experimental and theoretical aspects. As systematic examinations are impeded by the complexity of the natural membranes, the best approach to conducting detailed physical and chemical studies of biological membranes is to use simplified well-defined model lipid membranes. Among the most commonly used are liposomes, planar lipid membranes, membranes on solid substrates, and lipid monolayers on the free surface.Studies of the electrical properties of model lipid membranes have been carried out for many years. However, there are still many issues that have not been verified experimentally and for which the existing results are incomplete or inconsistent. Therefore, the main objective of this book was to collect recent scientific and review articles on the electrical properties of model lipid membranes. This objective has been successfully achieved, for which I express heartfelt appreciation to all authors and reviewers for their excellent contributions.
• Titolo autorizzato: Electrical Properties of Model Lipid Membranes
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910566472903321
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