New nanotransporter for drug delivery inside cells
A new study by the University of Barcelona has analized the viability of a new nanomolecule as drug delivery vehicle.
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Category: Biophysics of Biomembranes
Studying Lipid Membrane Interactions of a Super-Cationic Peptide in Model Membranes and Living Bacteria.
The super-cationic peptide dendrimers (SCPD) family is a valuable class of antimicrobial peptide candidates for the future development of antibacterial
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Engineering and development of model lipid membranes mimicking the HeLa cell membrane.
Cells are complex systems whose interaction with nanocarriers, i.e., liposomes, are continuously under investigation to improve drug uptake. Model membranes
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Characterization of monolayers and liposomes that mimic lipid composition of HeLa cells.
In this work, based on several studies, we develop an artificial lipid membrane to mimic the HeLa cell membrane using
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Planar lipid bilayers formed from thermodynamically-optimized liposomes as new featured carriers for drug delivery systems through human skin.
The fundamental objective pursued in this work is to investigate how liposomes formed with a thermo- dynamically optimized molar composition
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Effect of cholesterol on monolayer structure of different acyl chained phospholipids
In this work we have investigated the effect of cholesterol (CHOL) in phospholipid monolayers on a series of phosphatidylcholines differing
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