ArticleOpen journal of biophysics2015
Free Volume in Membranes: Viscosity or Tension?
Article in Open journal of biophysics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Mechanical properties of the brain: Focus on the essential role of Piezo1-mediated mechanotransduction in the CNS.Brain and behavior · 2023Review
- Disruption of membrane cholesterol organization impairs the activity of PIEZO1 channel clusters.The Journal of general physiology · 2020Article
- Enantiomeric Aβ peptides inhibit the fluid shear stress response of PIEZO1.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Mechanical Transduction and the Dark Energy of Biology.Biophysical journal · 2018Review
- Asymmetric mechanosensitivity in a eukaryotic ion channel.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- GsMTx4: Mechanism of Inhibiting Mechanosensitive Ion Channels.Biophysical journal · 2017Article
- Mechanical stress activates NMDA receptors in the absence of agonists.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- A general mechanism for drug promiscuity: Studies with amiodarone and other antiarrhythmics.The Journal of general physiology · 2015Article
- Free Volume in Membranes: Viscosity or Tension?Open journal of biophysics · 2015Article
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Abstract
Many papers have used fluorescent probe diffusion to infer membrane viscosity but the measurement is actually an assay of the free volume of the membrane. The free volume is also related to the membrane tension. Thus, changes in probe mobility refer equally well to changes in membrane tension. In complicated structures like cell membranes, it appears more intuitive to consider variations in free volume as referring to the effect of domains structures and interactions with the cytoskeleton than changes in viscosity since tension is a state variable and viscosity is not.
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