Membranes (Biology) Fluidity
Reich, Christian (2007): Structure, Fluidity and Phase Behavior of Supported Lipid Membranes: An Investigation by X-ray Reflectivity and Fluorescence Microscopy. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Physik
... X-ray reflectivity measurements were performed at the ESRF on DOPC mem- branes supported on Topas. After deposition of the membrane, the observed Kiessig fringes were still dominated by the oscillations resulting from ...
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Effect of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles on fluidity and phase transition of phosphatidylcholine liposomal membranes
... membrane fluidity of small unilamellar vesicles (SUVs) prepared from 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC) lipid (Figure 1A) and phase transition temperature of mul- tilamellar vesicles (MLVs) ...
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Premalignant alterations in the lipid composition and fluidity of colonic brush border membranes of rats administered 1,2 dimethylhydrazine
... border membranes were prepared from proximal and distal colonocytes of each ...of fluidity of each membrane were then assessed, by steady-state fluorescence polarization techniques using limiting hindered ...
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Topography design in model membranes: Where biology meets physics
... A major difference between reconstituted flat lipid bilayers and biological membranes is the lack of the bulk aqueous phase of the cytosol underneath the lipid leaflet, which confers fluidity to cellular ...
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Topography design in model membranes: Where biology meets physics
... Generally, GUVs are more appropriate models for studying how a wide range of membrane physical parameters affects their interaction with other molecules. Nonetheless, SLBs offer specific advantages for quantifying ...
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Membrane Fluidity in Human and Mouse Chediak Higashi Leukocytes
... that fluidity of Chediak-Higashi cell membranes was affected by treatments expected to alter the oxidation: reduction potential of the environment but was not affected by treatments expected to alter the ...
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Modification of Membrane Fluidity by Gravity
... Biological membranes are preferentially composed of lipids and proteins, and it is assumed that mainly the proteins are responsible for their functional ...lipid membranes are affected by gravity ...the ...
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Mitochondrial ATPase activity and membrane fluidity changes in rat liver in response to intoxication with Buckthorn (Karwinskia humboldtiana)
... cell membranes plays an important role in maintaining intracellular homeostasis through the activity of membrane enzymes, hormone re- ceptors, and the transmembrane transport ...ity. Fluidity is an ...
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Porosity and poiesis across fragile membranes : patterning fluid arrangements in human biology
... porosity, fluidity, our connection with materiality of ‘nature’, and ways in which entities and pollutants affect our bodily processes in trans- ...to biology, might be addressed more readily in terms of ...
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Membrane Fluidity: About the Origin of Autoimmunity
... cellular membranes is essential for ...human membranes fluid: unsaturated fatty acids and ...into membranes enhancing fluidity again, is able to repair the ...
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Decreased Fluidity of Red Cell Membrane Lipids in Abetalipoproteinemia
... anemia. Fluidity of membrane lipids is decreased in spur cells due to their excess cholesterol ...Acanthocyte membranes have an increased content of sphingomyelin and a decreased content of ...membrane ...
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Cholesterol content in cell membrane maintains surface levels of ErbB2 and confers a therapeutic vulnerability in ErbB2-positive breast cancer
... the fluidity of cell membranes, we investigated whether the differential cholesterol amounts in ErbB2-positive breast cancer cells correlated with their migratory abilities ...reduced fluidity of ...
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Persistent Cultures: Miskitu Kinship Terminological Fluidity
... evident fluidity present in contemporary Miskitu kin terminologies studied here defies simple algebraic description, key elements of this instability that have no mechanism for their own reproduction are ...
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Cell membrane lipid composition and distribution: implications for cell function and lessons learned from photoreceptors and platelets
... disk membranes decreases as the disk ages, a lipid environment is established that favors Metarhodopsin II formation (and therefore favors rhodopsin activation of PDEase) and the subsequent regeneration of ...
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Ultrastructural Pathology of Plasma and Endoplasmic Reticulum Membranes of Nerve and Glial Cells: A Review
... postsynaptic membranes, and loss of peri synaptic astrocytic glial ...plasma membranes and cytomembranes are related with the anoxic-ischemic conditions of brain ...
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Practise-centred Reseach: The study of Interconnectivity and Fluidity
... The emergent body of work now referred to as practice-based studies (see Gherardi, 2006 for overview) is the latest attempt in social sciences in general (Schatzki et al., 2001) and in management and organization studies ...
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Regulated tissue fluidity steers zebrafish body elongation
... The cell flow field analysis indicates that DM cells migrate coherently to the posterior end of the embryo where they adopt a less coordinated mode of cell migration. We found that this transition coincides with the ...
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On the fluidity of consonance and dissonance: The influence of musical context
... the fluidity of C/D - the extent to which C/D perception is dependent on musical context - four types of chords, major, minor, augmented and diminished triads , were presented in isolation (“ without musical cont ...
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Casting Fluidity of Metals and Alloys
... The fluidity of cast metal and alloys is thus of great importance to the foundry men as it governs the overall soundness and surface features of the cast ...casting fluidity of a new or unfamiliar alloy ...
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Incorporating characteristics of human creativity into an evolutionary art algorithm (journal article)
... of fluidity and control over different phases of the creative ...creative fluidity because it offers the capacity to move though the search space via genotype (small ordered movement) or phenotype (large ...
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