✦ LIBER ✦
Cholesterol as liquifier in phospholipid membranes studied by surface viscosity measurements of mixed monolayers
✍ Scribed by P. Joos
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1970
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 288 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-3084
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✦ Synopsis
The surface viscosity of cholesterol, distearoyl lecithin, oleoyl-stearoyl lecithin monolayers and mixed monolayers of cholesterol with both lecithins were measured. The presence of cholesterol causes the surface viscosity of the phospholipid monolayer to be reduced, so cholesterol acts as a liquifier. This liquifaction of the mixed monolayer is a pure physical phenomena and follows from the rate theory of Eyring.