
Advances in Biomembranes and Lipid Self-Assembly
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Key Features
- Surveys recent theoretical and experimental results on lipid micro- and nanostructures
- Presents potential uses of applications like clinically relevant diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, biotechnology, pharmaceutical engineering, and food products
- Provides both original research as well as comprehensive reviews written by world leading experts and young researchers
- Provides a global platform for a broad community of experimental and theoretical researchers studying cell membranes, lipid model membranes, and lipid self-assemblies from the micro- to the nanoscale.
Readership
experts in the field of chemistry, physics and biology of lipid micro- and nano- structures and biological membranes, and a podium for non-specialists working on the interdisciplinary front
Table of Contents
Chapter One: The Importance of Planarity for Lipid Bilayers as Biomembranes
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 How CPP Translocates into the Cytosol
- 3 Pore Formation
- 4 How Does Curvature Modulation by Changing Vesicle Size Effect the CPP Translocation?
- 5 Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
Chapter Two: Interaction of Cells and Platelets with Biomaterial Surfaces Treated with Gaseous Plasma
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Experimental
- 3 Results
- 4 Discussion
- 5 Conclusions
Chapter Three: Competition Between Electrostatic and Thermodynamic Casimir Potentials in Near-Critical Mixtures with Ions
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Experiments
- 3 From Microscopic to Mesoscopic Description
- 4 Critical Mixture with Inorganic Ions
- 5 Critical Mixture with Antagonistic Salt
- 6 Summary
- Acknowledgments
Chapter Four: Effect of Dendrimers and Dendriplexes on Model Lipid Membranes
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Carbosilane Dendrimers
- 3 Phosphorus Dendrimers
- 4 PAMAM Dendrimers
- 5 Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
Chapter Five: The Membrane Bending Modulus in Experiments and Simulations: A Puzzling Picture
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Experiments
- 3 Simulations
- 4 Discussion and Conclusions
Chapter Six: Bicontinuous Phases of Lyotropic Liquid Crystals
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Model and the Computational Method
- 3 Cubic Phases of Lyotropic Liquid Crystals
- 4 The Structure of the Interface Between the Cubic Phase and the Isotropic Phase
- 5 Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
Chapter Seven: Peculiarities in the Study of Preformed DSPC Lipid Vesicles by Coarse Grain Molecular Dynamics
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methods and Systems
- 3 Results and Discussion
- 4 Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
Chapter Eight: Extracellular Vesicles in Cancer
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Heterogeneous Forms of Extracellular miRNAs
- 3 Mechanisms of EV Biogenesis, Cargo Sorting, and Secretion
- 4 Methods for Isolation of EVs
- 5 EVs for Discard of Unnecessary miRNAs
- 6 EVs for Proangiogenesis
- 7 EVs as Drug Delivery System for RNAi
- 8 Conclusion and Perspectives
- Acknowledgments
Product details
- No. of pages: 222
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2016
- Published: March 30, 2016
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128047156
- eBook ISBN: 9780128050804
About the Serial Volume Editors
Ales Iglic

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Chandrashekhar Kulkarni

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Michael Rappolt

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