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26 May 2011

Electroformation of cell-sized lipid membrane vesicles (giant vesicles, GVs) from egg yolk phosphatidylcholine was examined using a poly(ethylene terephthalate) sheet coated with indium tin oxide (ITO-PET) as the electrode material. With sinusoidal a...

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  • Open Access
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Electroformation of Giant Vesicles on a Polymer Mesh

  • Yukihisa Okumura and
  • Takuya Sugiyama

15 July 2011

Electroformation of cell-sized lipid membrane vesicles (giant vesicles, GVs) from egg yolk phosphatidylcholine under applied electric voltage was examined on a substrate of a polymer mesh placed between two planar indium tin oxide coated glass electr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
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10 Pages

Formation of Oligovesicular Vesicles by Micromanipulation

  • Yukihisa Okumura,
  • Tohru Ohmiya and
  • Toshiki Yamazaki

26 September 2011

Cell-sized lipid bilayer membrane vesicles (giant vesicles, GVs) or semi-vesicles were formed from egg yolk phosphatidylcholine on a platinum electrode under applied electric voltage by electroformation. Micromanipulation of the semi-vesicle by first...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biological Membrane Morphogenesis)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
11 Citations
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9 Pages

24 November 2011

Electroformation of cell-sized lipid membrane vesicles (giant vesicles, GVs), from egg yolk phosphatidylcholine, was examined varying the shape of the counter electrode. Instead of a planar ITO (indium tin oxide) electrode commonly used, platinum wir...