Single-vesicle assays using liposomes and cell-derived vesicles: from modeling complex membrane processes to synthetic biology and biomedical applications

H Pick, AC Alves, H Vogel - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
The plasma membrane is of central importance for defining the closed volume of cells in
contradistinction to the extracellular environment. The plasma membrane not only serves as …

Assembling Alkaline-Responsive Chitosan@ Giant Liposomes through an Ultrasound-Integrated Microfluidic Approach

M Lv, H Li, H Cao, T Wang, C He, Y Liang, X Mao… - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
This paper presents the fabrication of an alkaline-responsive drug carrier, chitosan@ giant
liposome (CS-GL), by using an ultrasound-integrated microfluidic approach. On the …

Mechanism study of how lipid vesicle electroformation is suppressed by the presence of sodium chloride

L Jiang, Q Wang, J Lei, K Tao, J Huang, S Zhao… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2021 - Elsevier
Giant lipid vesicles (GLVs) are usually adopted as models of cell membranes and
electroformation is the most commonly used method for GLV formation. However, GLV …

Review of the application of nanovesicles and the human interstitial fluid in gastrointestinal premalignant lesion detection, diagnosis, prognosis and therapy

Y Huang, X Deng, J Liang - International Journal of Nanomedicine, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Premalignant lesions arise from cells that abnormally proliferate and have a tendency to
become cancerous. Developing methods to specifically target and remove these …

Microfluidics and giant vesicles: creation, capture, and applications for biomembranes

T Robinson - Advances in Biomembranes and Lipid Self-Assembly, 2019 - Elsevier
Since their first reported formation in the late 1960s [1], giant vesicles have proven to be
invaluable research tools for many applications including but not limited to studies on the …

Droplet microfluidics for biomedical devices

M Hébert, CL Ren - Microfluidic Devices for Biomedical Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
Microfluidics is an enabling technology that leverages smaller dimensions. The
development of droplet microfluidics by introducing a second phase aimed to address …

Multivalent Programmable Interactions Between Lipid Vesicles: Towards Responsive Soft Materials

O Amjad - 2020 - repository.cam.ac.uk
Lipid membranes and lipid vesicles have been studied extensively in the last 50 years in
order to characterise their biological, chemical and physical properties. Such work is of …