bilayer
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- noun
- /ˈbaɪˌleɪər/
- Specialized
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bicapa
- The protrusion and retraction forces act on the cell and its membrane, a lipid bilayer whose shape is affected by such physical properties as surface tension and bending rigidity.
- doped bilayers
And what they did is they took a supported lipid bilayer, so a membrane on glass.
- And what they did is they took a supported lipid bilayer, so a membrane on glass.
Examples
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The cell membrane is primarily made up of a lipid bilayer that protects the contents of the cell.
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But the lipids will form a bilayer where the water soluble part of the lipid points out of this layer and the and the oily part points in.
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Each of these is surrounded by the lipid bilayer that we just discussed.
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This agent is given as two 1,000/62.5-mg bilayer tablets twice a day.
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Trans membrane proteins stretch across the bilayer to create channels that allow specific molecules through, like sodium and potassium ions.
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The bilayer is composed of two slabs of doped semiconductors separated by a thin insulating region.
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OK, so I've been talking a lot about neurons, but at the beginning I mentioned that there are these lipid bilayers, these membranes all over biology.
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Others suggest that the surfaces of lipids could achieve the same result, but most recent attention has been focused on hollow containers, or vesicles, made of bilayers of phospholipid molecules -- or in some versions, of fatty acids.
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During the experiment, we observed how the substances moved across the bilayer of the cell membrane.
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In biochemistry, understanding the properties of a lipid bilayer is essential for studying cellular functions.
How Layered
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bilayer comes from the parts bi- 'two' and layer 'a thin level or sheet'. Think of a cell membrane made of two close sheets; a bilayer is just a structure made of two layers joined together.