Title of article
The working of a pulsatory liposome
Author/Authors
Popescu، نويسنده , , Dumitru and Popescu، نويسنده , , Alin Gabriel، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2008
Pages
5
From page
515
To page
519
Abstract
Under positive osmotic stress, a greater lipid vesicle swells to a critical diameter, when suddenly a transbilayer pore appears and grows to a maximum radius, then decreases and finally disappears. An amount of liquid was leaked out through the pore and the vesicle returns to the initial state and can start another cycle. This is a pulsatory lipid liposome. In this paper, we have considered the problem of such liposomes. We have obtained the condition that a pulsatory liposome to run an a priori settled number of cycles. The length time of each cycle and its activity life was calculated. Also, we have calculated the quantities of solute leaked out through a pore in each cycle. The pulsatory liposome may be regarded as a biotechnological device to dose drugs at fixed intervals time.
Keywords
Transient pore , Drug dose device , lipid vesicle , Osmotic stress
Journal title
Journal of Theoretical Biology
Serial Year
2008
Journal title
Journal of Theoretical Biology
Record number
1539429
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