LIPIDAT (http://www. lipidat. chemistry. ohio-state. edu) is an Internet accessible,
computerized relational database providing access to the wealth of information scattered …

Dimethyl sulphoxide is a water miscible solvent that has wide applications in cell biology. It
acts as a cryoprotective agent in a variety of cells and tissues allowing prolonged storage at …

Evidence is reviewed that freezing and dehydration are fundamentally different stress
vectors:(a) Proteins, membranes, phospholipids, and living cells and organisms all contain …

Cryoprotectant toxicity is a fundamental obstacle to the full potential of artificial
cryoprotection, yet it remains in general a poorly understood phenomenon. Unfortunately …

Recent literature has suggested that the depression of the phase transition temperature (Tm)
in dry phospholipids by sugars may be ascribed to vitrification of the stabilizing solute, rather …

LIPIDAT is a computerized database providing access to the wealth of information scattered
throughout the literature concerning synthetic and biologically derived polar lipid …

Trehalose is a non-reducing disaccharide that is found in many organisms but not in
mammals. This sugar plays important roles in cryptobiosis of selaginella mosses …

By means of differential scanning calorimetry and from a review of published data we
demonstrate in this work that low-molecular weight kosmotropic substances (water-structure …

Dimethyl sulphoxide is a widely used agent in cell biology. It is well known as a
cryoprotectant, cell fusogen and a permeability enhancing agent. These applications …

Blends of citrus pectin and high amylose starch plasticized with glycerine were investigated
to determine the effect of compositional variables on film properties. Several films with …