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SUBMITTER: Imran A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7147966 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Imran Ali A Popescu Dumitru D Movileanu Liviu L
Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids 20200330 13
A lipid vesicle, or simply called a liposome, represents a synthetic compartment for the examination of transmembrane transport and signaling phenomena. Yet, a liposome is always subjected to size and shape fluctuations due to local and global imbalance of internal and external osmotic pressures. Here, we show that an osmotically stressed liposome placed within a hypotonic spherical bath undergoes cyclic dynamics described by a periodic sequence of swelling and relaxation phases. These two phase ...[more]