Space-filling models of these molecules reveal their ... Thus, the hydrophilic heads of the glycerophospholipids in a cell's plasma membrane face both the water-based cytoplasm and the exterior ...

Thereafter, the idea of a lipid bilayer became the basis for future models of membrane structure. (Sadava 1993). When the use of electron microscopy started to allow examination of the plasma ...

In addition other biological events can also be measured simultaneously such as mitochondrial membrane potential during autophagy. Model of plasma membrane Violet membrane asymmetry probe ratio Violet ...

Here, we use a synthetic amphiphile to modulate the membrane mechanical properties of cell-derived vesicles and probe channel activation. Using precise membrane mechanical characterization approaches ...

Similar to a small cut that heals itself after a short time, individual cells in our body suffer "wounds" in their protective layer, the cell membrane, every day and have to repair them again.

Through his review, Ipsen points out how many useful insights have been gleaned through simulations of simple model membranes, based on the basic physical principles of mechanics and thermodynamics.

During apoptosis, the PS and PE residues are translocated in the membrane and are externalized resulting in a change in surface charge of the outer leaflet of the plasma membrane. In general, though ...