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Dynamic shapes of floppy vesicles enclosing active Brownian particles with membrane adhesion [PDF]
Soft Matter 19, 3436-3449 (2023), 2023 Recent advances in micro- and nano-technologies allow the construction of complex active systems from biological and synthetic materials. An interesting example is active vesicles, which consist of a membrane enclosing self-propelled particles, and exhibit several features resembling biological cells.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016 Significance The last decade has seen a rapid expansion of interest in extracellular vesicles (EVs), proposed to mediate cell–cell communication in patho/physiological conditions.
J. Kowal +9 more
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Routes and mechanisms of extracellular vesicle uptake
Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, 2014 Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are small vesicles released by donor cells that can be taken up by recipient cells. Despite their discovery decades ago, it has only recently become apparent that EVs play an important role in cell-to-cell communication.
L. A. Mulcahy, R. Pink, D. Carter
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Survival of red blood cells after transfusion: processes and consequences
Frontiers in Physiology, 2013 The currently available data suggest that efforts towards improving the quality of red blood cell (RBC) blood bank products should concentrate on: (1) preventing the removal of a considerable fraction of the transfused RBCs that takes place within the ...
Giel eBosman
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Membrane trafficking in health and disease
Disease Models & Mechanisms, 2020 Membrane trafficking pathways are essential for the viability and growth of cells, and play a major role in the interaction of cells with their environment.
Rebecca Yarwood +3 more
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Physical Review A, 1990 A simple model for the adhesion of vesicles to interfaces and membranes is introduced and theoretically studied. It is shown that adhering (or bound) vesicles can exhibit a large variety of different shapes. The notion of a contact angle governed by tension is found to be applicable only for a restricted subset of these shapes. Furthermore, the vesicle
Udo Seifert +3 more
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Life, 2016 We propose that the first step in the origin of cellular life on Earth was the self-assembly of fatty acids with the building blocks of RNA and protein, resulting in a stable aggregate.
Roy A. Black, Matthew C. Blosser
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SNARE-Mediated Exocytosis in Neuronal Development
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2020 The formation of the nervous system involves establishing complex networks of synaptic connections between proper partners. This developmental undertaking requires the rapid expansion of the plasma membrane surface area as neurons grow and polarize ...
Fabio L. Urbina +4 more
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Membrane-mediated interactions between disk-like inclusions adsorbed on vesicles
Frontiers in Physics, 2022 Self-assembly of membrane inclusions plays a key role in biological processes such as cellular signalling and trafficking and has potential applications for designing interfacial devices such as sensors and actuators.
Elnaz Alizadeh-Haghighi +3 more
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Morphology of Nematic and Smectic Vesicles [PDF]
PNAS 2012 109 (14) 5202-5206, 2011 Recent experiments on vesicles formed from block copolymers with liquid-crystalline side-chains reveal a rich variety of vesicle morphologies. The additional internal order ("structure") developed by these self-assembled block copolymer vesicles can lead to significantly deformed vesicles as a result of the delicate interplay between two-dimensional ...
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