Surface Tension
"Surface Tension" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The force acting on the surface of a liquid, tending to minimize the area of the surface. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D013500
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G02.842.850.816
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| Concept/Terms |
Surface Tension- Surface Tension
- Surface Tensions
- Tension, Surface
- Tensions, Surface
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1982 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Surface Tension" by people in Profiles.
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Galimzyanov TR, Molotkovsky RJ, Bozdaganyan ME, Cohen FS, Pohl P, Akimov SA. Elastic Membrane Deformations Govern Interleaflet Coupling of Lipid-Ordered Domains. Phys Rev Lett. 2015 Aug 21; 115(8):088101.
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Akimov SA, Frolov VA, Kuzmin PI, Zimmerberg J, Chizmadzhev YA, Cohen FS. Domain formation in membranes caused by lipid wetting of protein. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2008 May; 77(5 Pt 1):051901.
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Markosyan RM, Melikyan GB, Cohen FS. Tension of membranes expressing the hemagglutinin of influenza virus inhibits fusion. Biophys J. 1999 Aug; 77(2):943-52.
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Strassner HT, Nochimson DJ. Determination of fetal maturity. Clin Perinatol. 1982 Jun; 9(2):297-312.