Liposome methods and protocols / edited by Subhash C. Basu, Manju Basu.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: I PHYSICAL PROPERTIES -- 1 Preparation, Isolation, and Characterization of Liposomes -- Containing Natural and Synthetic Lipids -- Subroto Chatterjee and Dipak K. Banerjee3 -- 2 Preparation and Use of Liposomes for the Study -- of Sphingolipid Segregation in Membrane Model Systems -- Massimo Masserini, Paola Palestini, Marina Pitto, -- Vanna Chigorno, and Sandro Sonnino 17 -- II LIPOSOME FUSION/MODULATION -- 3 Peptide-Induced Fusion of Liposomes -- Eve-lsabelle Pecheur and Dick Hoekstra31 -- 4 Liposomes: Applications in Protein-Lipid Interaction Studies -- Sujoy Ghosh and Robert Bell49 -- 5 Lipids in Viral Fusion -- Anu Purl, Maite Paternostre, and Robert Blumenthal61 -- III APPLICATION OF LIPOSOMES -- 6 Liposome-Mediated, Fluorescence-Based Studies -- of Sphingolipid Metabolism in Intact Cells -- Shimon Gatt, Tama Dinur, and Arie Dagan85 -- 7 Micelles and Liposomes in Metabolic Enzyme and Glycolipid -- Glycosyltransferase Assays -- Manju Basu and Subhash Basu107 -- 8 Liposomes and Phospholipid Binding Proteins -- in Glycoprotein Biosynthesis -- Roger K. Bretthauer and Dennis W. Welsh131 -- 9 Therapeutic Uses of Antioxidant Liposomes -- William L. Stone, Shyamali Mukherjee, Milton Smith, -- and Salil K. Das145 -- 10 Targeted Gene Delivery by Virosomes -- Debi P. Sarkar, Komal Ramani, and Sandeep K. Tyagi163 -- 11 Liposomes Containing Ligands: Binding Specificity to Selectins -- Sriram Neelamegham and Khushi L. Matta175 -- 12 Preparation and Characterization of Glycolipid-Bearing -- Multilamellar and Unilamellar Liposomes -- P. R. Satish and A. Surolia193 -- 13 Use of Liposomes Containing Carbohydrates -- for Production of Monoclonal Antibodies -- Reiji Kannagi203 -- 14 Inhibition of Tumor Metastasis by Liposomes -- Containing Glyco-Replica Peptides -- Takao Taki and Naoto Oku219 -- 15 Use of Phospholipid Bilayers and Monolayers in Binding Studies -- of Vitamin K-Dependent Blood Coagulation Proteins -- Francis J. Castellino.