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Biological Membranes as Bilayer Couples. A Molecular Mechanism of Drug-Erythrocyte Interactions

1974 • 1,362 citations

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1991 • 950 citations

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1991 • 904 citations

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1990 • 239 citations

Shape changes of giant liposomes induced by an asymmetric transmembrane distribution of phospholipids

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Local and nonlocal curvature elasticity in bilayer membranes by tether formation from lecithin vesicles

1992 • 174 citations

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1980 • 161 citations

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1992 • 144 citations

Equilibrium budding and vesiculation in the curvature model of fluid lipid vesicles

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1986 • 130 citations

Role of lamellar membrane structure in tether formation from bilayer vesicles

1992 • 124 citations

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1985 • 102 citations

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1992 • 87 citations

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The mechanical behaviour of cell membranes as a possible physical origin of cell polarity

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The elastic deformability of closed multilayered membranes is the same as that of a bilayer membrane

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