Advances in Biomembranes and Lipid Self-Assembly

Advances in Biomembranes and Lipid Self-Assembly, Volume 26, formerly titled Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes, 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. Planar lipid bilayers are widely studied due to their ubiquity in nature and find their application in the formulation of biomimetic model membranes, and in the design of artificial dispersion of liposomes. Moreover, lipids self-assemble into a wide range of other structures, including micelles and the liquid crystalline hexagonal and cubic phases. Consensus has been reached that curved membrane phases do play an important role in nature as well, especially in dynamic processes, such as vesicles fusion and cell communication. Self-assembled lipid structures have enormous potential as dynamic materials ranging from artificial lipid membranes, to cell membranes, from biosensing, to controlled drug delivery, and from pharmaceutical formulations, to novel food products. An assortment of chapters in this volume represents both original research as well as comprehensive reviews written by world leading experts and young researchers. Surveys recent theoretical and experimental results on lipid micro- and nanostructuresPresents potential uses of applications, like clinically relevant diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, biotechnology, pharmaceutical engineering and food productsIncludes both original research and comprehensive reviews written by world leading experts and young researchersProvides 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 INDICE: Chapters include: Applicative use of electroporation models: from the molecular to the tissue level Lea Rems Tubular membrane structures Urska Jelercic Trends in Big Data Technologies Doron Kabaso Biomedical application of TiO2+Gd nanostructures Veno Kononenko The metamorphic transformation of a water-soluble monomeric protein into an oligomeric transmembrane pore Alvaro Martinez-del-Pozo Assembly and reconstruction of cytotoxic bacterial protein assemblies in lipid vesicles Rafael Giraldo

• ISBN: 978-0-12-812079-8
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 318
• Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés