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Rotation of giant phospholipid vesicles in an uniform shear flow
A Razpet1, G Gomiscek, V Arrigler
1Institute of Biophysics, Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Pflugers Archiv : European Journal of Physiology
|February 1, 2000
Abstract:
Rotation of giant "point attached" phospholipid (POPC) vesicles in a shear flow was studied. The dependence of the angular velocity on the flow gradient was measured and the experimental results were compared to the predictions of a theoretical model. A good linear correlation between the angular velocity of the vesicle and the flow gradient, as predicted, was observed.