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Angle resolved fluorescence depolarization experiments on oriented lipid membrane systems.

M H Vos·R P Kooyman·Y K Levine
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It is demonstrated that angle resolved steady state fluorescence depolarization experiments on oriented lipid membrane systems can be an useful alternative to time-resolved fluorescence depolarization experiments on vesicles. It is shown that some basic assumptions underlying time-resolved experiments are not always valid. The usefulness of the measurement of an additional order parameter, less than P4 greater than is demonstrated.

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M H Vos, R P Kooyman, Y K Levine. 1983-10-31. Angle resolved fluorescence depolarization experiments on oriented lipid membrane systems.. https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-291x(83)90546-6

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