1987 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Self-Oscillation, Negative Resistance and Switching in Thin Phospholipid Membrane
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61550596
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
工業物理化学
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| Research Institution | University of Tokushima |
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Principal Investigator |
YOSHIKAWA Kenichi University of Tokushima, Associate Professor, 教養部, 助教授 (80110823)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1986 – 1987
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| Keywords | Phospholipid Bilayer membrane / LB Membrane / Non-Linear / Oscillation / Artificial Nerve / Bilayer Lipid Membrane / ピペットクランプ法 |
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| Research Abstract |
In order to contruct artificial nervous membrane, self-excitable phospholipid membranes have been studied.
(1) A novel method to make a stable and uniform phospholipid membrane of large area and good manipulability was settled. Using the Langmuir-Blodgess (LB) technique, a monolayer of phospholipid can be transferred to filter paper. A scanning electron micrograph demonstrated that the phospholipid membrane on the filter paper was uniform.
(2) Fluctuations and/or step-wise changes in membrane potential and electrical current were observed in bilayer membranes of dioleoylphosphatidylcholine (DOPC) in the absence of any channel protein. The DOPC membranes consisted of three types: black lipid membranes (BLM) , pipette clamp membrans and lipid membranes transferred to porous filter paper by conventional Langmuir-Blodgett technique. Lipid molecules with a cis dou ble-bond in their alkyl skeleton are suggested to be importane in the gating or excitation of biomembranes.
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Research Products
(22 results)
