A comprehensive review on recent preparation techniques of liposomes

C Has, P Sunthar - Journal of liposome research, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Liposomes (or lipid vesicles) are a versatile platform as carriers for the delivery of the drugs
and other macromolecules into human and animal bodies. Though the method of using …

Versatile phospholipid assemblies for functional synthetic cells and artificial tissues

X Wang, H Du, Z Wang, W Mu, X Han - Advanced materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The bottom‐up construction of a synthetic cell from nonliving building blocks capable of
mimicking cellular properties and behaviors helps to understand the particular biophysical …

Lipid in chips: a brief review of liposomes formation by microfluidics

G Zhang, J Sun - International journal of nanomedicine, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Liposomes are ubiquitous tools in biomedical applications, such as drug delivery,
membrane science and artificial cell. Micro-and nanofabrication techniques have …

Conventional and novel methods for the preparation of micro and nanoliposomes

M Alavi, M Rai, RS Varma, M Hamidi… - Micro Nano Bio …, 2022 - mnba-journal.com
Liposomes mainly comprise an aqueous core surrounded by a lipid bilayer, akin to cellular
membranes. The encapsulation, loading, and release properties of therapeutic agents in …

[HTML][HTML] Interactions of α-synuclein oligomers with lipid membranes

G Musteikytė, AK Jayaram, CK Xu… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2021 - Elsevier
Parkinson's disease is an increasingly prevalent and currently incurable neurodegenerative
disorder. At the molecular level, this disease is characterized by the formation of aberrant …

Bending rigidity, capacitance, and shear viscosity of giant vesicle membranes prepared by spontaneous swelling, electroformation, gel-assisted, and phase transfer …

HA Faizi, A Tsui, R Dimova, PM Vlahovska - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
Closed lipid bilayers in the form of giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) are commonly used
membrane models. Various methods have been developed to prepare GUVs, however it is …

Toward artificial cells: novel advances in energy conversion and cellular motility

S Jeong, HT Nguyen, CH Kim, MN Ly… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The demand to discover every single cellular component has been continuously increasing
along with the development of biological techniques. The bottom‐up approach to construct a …

En route to dynamic life processes by SNARE-mediated fusion of polymer and hybrid membranes

L Otrin, A Witkowska, N Marušič, Z Zhao, RB Lira… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
A variety of artificial cells springs from the functionalization of liposomes with proteins.
However, these models suffer from low durability without repair and replenishment …

Advances in giant unilamellar vesicle preparation techniques and applications

KS Nair, H Bajaj - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) are versatile and promising cell-sized bio-membrane
mimetic platforms. Their applications range from understanding and quantifying membrane …

Giant unilamellar vesicle electroformation: what to use, what to avoid, and how to quantify the results

Z Boban, I Mardešić, WK Subczynski, M Raguz - Membranes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Since its inception more than thirty years ago, electroformation has become the most
commonly used method for growing giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs). Although the method …