Liposomes: Methods and Protocols, Volume 1: Pharmaceutical Nanocarriers

Book Overview

Efforts to describe and model the molecular structure of biological membranes go back to the beginning of the last century. In 1917, Langmuir described membranes as a layer of lipids one molecule thick [1]. Eight years later, Gorter and Grendel concluded from their studies that "the phospholipid molecules that formed the cell membrane were arranged in two layers to form a lipid bilayer" [2]. Danielli and Robertson proposed, in 1935, a model in which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493957082
• ISBN13: 9781493957088
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Humana
• Length: 564 Pages
• Weight: 2.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 10.0"