Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology. Section A. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.337, 469-472, 1999
Electrical properties of planar bilayer lipid membranes
Planar Bilayer Lipid Membrane (BLM) was used as a model of liposome drug delivery system. By establishing the relations between membrane electrical properties and liposome characters, the behavior of liposomes in various conditions can be predicted by means of measuring, sensitive electrical proper-ties of BLM. When different ratios of cholesterol incorporated into membranes, or various quantities of detergents added into solutions, membrane resistance (Rm) and capacitance (Cm) changed regularly. Results indicated that there exited obvious relations between membrane electrical properties and characters of liposomes, thus BLM can become a useful and simple method to study liposome drug delivery system.
Keywords:Bilayer Lipid Membrane(BLM);membrane electrical properties;liposome;phosphatidylcholine;cholesterol;detergents