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Liquid Crystals

 
 
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Disease relevance of Liquid Crystals

 

High impact information on Liquid Crystals

  • The discotic liquid crystal hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene was used in combination with a perylene dye to produce thin films with vertically segregated perylene and hexabenzocoronene, with large interfacial surface area [3].
  • It was not possible to draw definite conclusions concerning the mechanism of action of the administered bile acids on the basis of cholesterol saturation or the presence of liquid crystals [4].
  • Human gallbladder mucin was associated with an increase in the number of liquid crystals after 4 days of incubation, which then decreased in number as solid cholesterol monohydrate crystals formed [5].
  • Concentrated (18-30%) solutions of Pluronic F127 are freely flowing liquids at low temperature (0-5 degrees C) but form gel-like, cubic liquid crystals of large, spherical micelles when warmed [6].
  • Residual quadrupole splittings for deuterons on perdeuterated alpha- and beta-D-mannose oriented in a potassium laurate liquid crystal have been measured [7].
 

Biological context of Liquid Crystals

 

Anatomical context of Liquid Crystals

 

Associations of Liquid Crystals with chemical compounds

 

Gene context of Liquid Crystals

  • With 11% (w/w) SP-B present, both bilayer systems display a continuous change from liquid crystal to gel with no evidence of two-phase coexistence near the transition [22].
  • The higher binding ability of the oriented RNase A over the randomly oriented RNase A was also apparent in the orientational behavior of nematic liquid crystals of 4-cyano-4'-pentylcyanobiphenyl (5CB) overlayed on these surfaces [23].
  • The binding of the ribonuclease inhibitor protein (RI) to RNase A on these surfaces was characterized by using ellipsometry and the orientational behavior of liquid crystals [23].
  • Recent advances in NIR-emitting materials, including liquid crystals, and in the control of luminescent properties in polymetallic assemblies are also presented [24].
  • Differential scanning calorimetry demonstrated that the physical state of the rHDL PL at 37 degrees C varied according to acyl chain length and degree of unsaturation; the FC efflux efficiencies for particles with PL in either the gel or liquid crystal states were determined [25].
 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Liquid Crystals

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