Single (unilamellar) and oligolamellar lipid bilayer vesicles with large diameter have great potential in membrane study. Specifically, large unilamellar bilayer vesicles (with diameter >50 nm) permit the insertion of microelectrodes for measuring the electrical properties of lipid bilayer of different compositions. Those vesicles that are large enough to be observed by light microscopy can be fused with cells, and hence, used to study the mechanism of cell rotation in the presence of an alternating electrical field.
Besides LUVs, we also provide other sizes of liposomes, such as Small Unilamellar Vesicles (SUV), Giant Unilamellar Vesicles (GUV) and Multivesicular Vesicles (MVV), and respective analysis service.
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