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Membranes, 2015 The mechanical properties of cell-sized giant unilamellar liposomes were studied by manipulating polystyrene beads encapsulated within the liposomes using double-beam laser tweezers.
Nobuhiko Kato +5 more
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Development of Artificial Cell Models Using Microfluidic Technology and Synthetic Biology
Micromachines, 2020 Giant lipid vesicles or liposomes are primarily composed of phospholipids and form a lipid bilayer structurally similar to that of the cell membrane. These vesicles, like living cells, are 5–100 μm in diameter and can be easily observed using an optical ...
Koki Kamiya
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Chemical communication between synthetic and natural cells: a possible experimental design [PDF]
, 2013 The bottom-up construction of synthetic cells is one of the most intriguing and interesting research arenas in synthetic biology. Synthetic cells are built by encapsulating biomolecules inside lipid vesicles (liposomes), allowing the synthesis of one or ...
D'Angelo, Francesca +5 more
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Electroformation of Giant Vesicles on a Polymer Mesh
Membranes, 2011 Electroformation of cell-sized lipid membrane vesicles (giant vesicles, GVs) from egg yolk phosphatidylcholine under applied electric voltage was examined on a substrate of a polymer mesh placed between two planar indium tin oxide coated glass electrodes.
Yukihisa Okumura, Takuya Sugiyama
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Pharmaceutics, 2022 Microfluidics is an emerging technology that can be employed as a powerful tool for designing lipid nano-microsized structures for biological applications.
Bruna G. Carvalho +4 more
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Liposomal delivery of hydrophobic RAMBAs provides good bioavailability and significant enhancement of retinoic acid signalling in neuroblastoma tumour cells [PDF]
, 2020 Retinoid treatment is employed during residual disease treatment in neuroblastoma, where the aim is to induce neural differentiation or death in tumour cells.
Bilip, Maja +11 more
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Repetitive stretching of giant liposomes utilizing the nematic alignment of confined actin
Communications Physics, 2018 Giant liposomes encapsulating cytoskeletons have been constructed to further understand the mechanisms of cell movement and develop cell-sized chemical machineries. Innovative studies demonstrating liposomal movements using microtubules and the molecular
Shunsuke Tanaka +2 more
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Membranes, 2011 Electroformation of cell-sized lipid membrane vesicles (giant vesicles, GVs) from egg yolk phosphatidylcholine was examined using a poly(ethylene terephthalate) sheet coated with indium tin oxide (ITO-PET) as the electrode material.
Yuuichi Iwata, Yukihisa Okumura
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Poly(2-oxazolines) in biological and biomedical application contexts. [PDF]
, 2007 Polyoxazolines of various architectures and chemical functionalities can be prepared in a living and therefore controlled manner via cationic ring-opening polymerisation.
Adams, Nico, Schubert, Ulrich S
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Detachment of giant liposomes - coupling of receptor mobility and membrane shape.
Soft Matter, 2020 Cellular adhesion is an intricate physical process controlled by ligand-receptor affinity, density, mobility, and external forces transmitted through the elastic properties of the cell.
Hannes Witt +3 more
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