Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes

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.

Incorporates contributions from newcomers and established and experienced researchersExplores the planar lipid bilayer systems and spherical liposomes from both theoretical and experimental perspectivesServes as an indispensable source of information for new scientists

1. Giant Vesicles: A Biomimetic Tool for Membrane Characterization

Rumiana Dimova

2. Low-Frequency Sound Propagation in Lipid Membranes

Lars D. Mosgaard, Andrew D. Jackson and Thomas Heimburg

3. Interactions of Biopolymer Chitosan with Plasma Membrane in Biomedical Applications

Peter Veranič, Andreja Erman and Mojca Kerec-Kos

4. Single-Chain Bolaphospholipids: Temperature-Dependent Self-Assembly and Mixing Behavior with Phospholipids

Annette Meister and Alfred Blume

5. Dynamics of Heterogeneity in Fluid Membranes

   Shigeyuki Komura, Sanoop Ramachandran, Kazuhiko Seki and Masayuki Imai
6. Lipid Microdomains - Structure, Function, and Controversies

Lucyna Mrówczyńska

7. Polyelectrolytes and Surfactants in Aqueous Solutions: From Dilute to Concentrated Systems

Ksenija Kogej

8. Implications of Microvesicle and Cell-Surface Protein Shedding for Biomarker Studies, Cancerogenesis and Therapeutic Target Discovery in Ovarian Cancer

Katarina Černe and Borut Kobal

9. 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

10. 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