Advances in Biomembranes and Lipid Self-Assembly

Chapter One: The Importance of Planarity for Lipid Bilayers as Biomembranes

• Abstract
• 1 Introduction
• 2 How CPP Translocates into the Cytosol
• 3 Pore Formation
• 4 How Does Curvature Modulation by Changing Vesicle Size Effect the CPP Translocation?
• 5 Conclusion
• Acknowledgments

Chapter Two: Interaction of Cells and Platelets with Biomaterial Surfaces Treated with Gaseous Plasma

• Abstract
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Experimental
• 3 Results
• 4 Discussion
• 5 Conclusions

Chapter Three: Competition Between Electrostatic and Thermodynamic Casimir Potentials in Near-Critical Mixtures with Ions

• Abstract
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Experiments
• 3 From Microscopic to Mesoscopic Description
• 4 Critical Mixture with Inorganic Ions
• 5 Critical Mixture with Antagonistic Salt
• 6 Summary
• Acknowledgments

Chapter Four: Effect of Dendrimers and Dendriplexes on Model Lipid Membranes

• Abstract
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Carbosilane Dendrimers
• 3 Phosphorus Dendrimers
• 4 PAMAM Dendrimers
• 5 Conclusions
• Acknowledgments

Chapter Five: The Membrane Bending Modulus in Experiments and Simulations: A Puzzling Picture

• Abstract
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Experiments
• 3 Simulations
• 4 Discussion and Conclusions

Chapter Six: Bicontinuous Phases of Lyotropic Liquid Crystals

• Abstract
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Model and the Computational Method
• 3 Cubic Phases of Lyotropic Liquid Crystals
• 4 The Structure of the Interface Between the Cubic Phase and the Isotropic Phase
• 5 Conclusions
• Acknowledgments

Chapter Seven: Peculiarities in the Study of Preformed DSPC Lipid Vesicles by Coarse Grain Molecular Dynamics

• Abstract
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Methods and Systems
• 3 Results and Discussion
• 4 Conclusions
• Acknowledgments

Chapter Eight: Extracellular Vesicles in Cancer

• Abstract
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Heterogeneous Forms of Extracellular miRNAs
• 3 Mechanisms of EV Biogenesis, Cargo Sorting, and Secretion
• 4 Methods for Isolation of EVs
• 5 EVs for Discard of Unnecessary miRNAs
• 6 EVs for Proangiogenesis
• 7 EVs as Drug Delivery System for RNAi
• 8 Conclusion and Perspectives
• Acknowledgments