Water Transport and Biological Membranes

Benga, Gheorghe

1. Location of the Water-Hydrocarbon Interface in Lipid Bilayers 2. Dielectric Relaxation Studies on Lipids and Water in Model Membrane Systems 3. Membrane Transport with Emphasis on water and Nonelectrolytes in Experimental Lipid Bilayer and Biomembranes 4. Osmotic Properties of Liposomes 5. Measurements of the Water Permeation by Solvent Isotope Effects. Diffusional; Permeation rates Across Lecithin Bilayers and Across Membranes from Erythrocyte Ghosts 6. Effects of Water and Sugars on Stability of Phospholipid Bilayers 7. Membrane Fusion of Artificial and Biological membranes: Role of Local Membrane Dehydration 8. Plasma Membrane Ultrastructural Changes Produced by Freezing During the Specimen Preparation Process for Freeze Fracture Electron Microscopy 9. Reversible Dehydration and the Aqueous Compartments of Cells.