Liposomes are essentially a subtype of nanoparticles comprising a hydrophobic tail and a
hydrophilic head constituting a phospholipid membrane. The spherical or multilayered …

Biological membranes are tricky to investigate. They are complex in terms of molecular
composition and structure, functional over a wide range of time scales, and characterized by …

Lipids are a fundamental class of organic molecules implicated in a wide range of biological
processes related to their structural diversity, and based on this can be broadly classified …

Abstract In 1972 the Fluid—Mosaic Membrane Model of membrane structure was proposed
based on thermodynamic principals of organization of membrane lipids and proteins and …

Phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) is the second most abundant glycerophospholipid in
eukaryotic cells. The existence of four only partially redundant biochemical pathways that …

Free radicals generated within subcellular compartments damage macromolecules which
lead to severe structural changes and functional alterations of cellular organelles. A …

The effect of cholesterol (CHOL) content on the permeability and fluidity of
dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) liposome membrane was investigated. Liposomes …

▪ Abstract Views of how cell membranes are organized are presently changing. The lipid
bilayer that constitutes these membranes is no longer understood to be a homogeneous …

There has been considerable recent interest in the possibility that the plasma membrane
contains lipid" rafts," microdomains enriched in cholesterol and sphingolipids. It has been …

Lyophilization is a promising approach to ensure the long-term stability of liposomes. After
decades of studies in this field, different lyoprotective mechanisms, such as water …