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S&M2452 Technical Paper of Special Issue https://doi.org/10.18494/SAM.2021.3072 Published: January 22, 2021 The Use of Giant Vesicles for Medical Applications: A Trend in the Last Decade [PDF] Taro Toyota, Yiting Zhang, and Hideki Hayashi (Received September 28, 2020; Accepted December 7, 2020) Keywords: giant vesicles, phospholipid, amphiphile, emulsion, cell marker, tissue marker, controlled release
A giant vesicle (GV) is composed of an amphiphile and a closed bilayer membrane with a diameter of 1 μm or more in water. GVs composed of phospholipids are attracting attention as cell models because their constituent molecules, structure, and size resemble those of cell membranes. In the last decade, with the development of GV preparation methods, functionalized GVs that sense a stimulus as an input and can give a corresponding output have been reported as new medical molecular devices. This technical report overviews the applicability of GVs.
Corresponding author: Taro ToyotaThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Cite this article Taro Toyota, Yiting Zhang, and Hideki Hayashi, The Use of Giant Vesicles for Medical Applications: A Trend in the Last Decade, Sens. Mater., Vol. 33, No. 1, 2021, p. 261-268. |