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Jorma A. Virtanen
Researcher at University of Jyväskylä
Publications - 81
Citations - 2633
Jorma A. Virtanen is an academic researcher from University of Jyväskylä. The author has contributed to research in topics: Phospholipid & Lipid bilayer. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 81 publications receiving 2579 citations. Previous affiliations of Jorma A. Virtanen include Texas Tech University & University of California, Irvine.
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Increased plasma phospholipase-A2 activity in schizophrenic patients: Reduction after neuroleptic therapy
TL;DR: The increased plasma PLA2 activity in schizophrenics was reduced to the level of the controls after 3 weeks of neuroleptic treatment, and warrant further study for possible implications of this increased PLA1 activity in the etiopathology of schizophrenia.
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1-Palmitoyl-2-pyrenedecanoyl glycerophospholipids as membrane probes: evidence for regular distribution in liquid-crystalline phosphatidylcholine bilayers.
TL;DR: The rates and apparent activation energies of lateral diffusion in fluid bilayers were found to be similar for most pyrene lipids, suggesting that the lateral movement of phospholipids is not critically dependent on interactions at the head-group level.
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Phospholipid composition of the mammalian red cell membrane can be rationalized by a superlattice model
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the phospholipid composition of the human erythrocyte membrane as a whole, as well as the composition of its individual leaflets, is closely predicted by a model that suggests that head groups tend to adopt regular, superlattice-like lateral distributions.
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Lateral organisation of membrane lipids. The superlattice view.
TL;DR: A superlattice model of membranes has been proposed in this article, which allows only a limited certain number of "critical" compositions to play a key role in the regulation of lipid compositions of biological membranes.
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Binding of cytochrome c to liposomes as revealed by the quenching of fluorescence from pyrene-labeled phospholipids
TL;DR: Resonance energy transfer from pyrene-fatty acid containing phospholipid derivatives to the heme of cytochrome c (cyt c) was used to observe the binding of this protein to liposomal membranes, revealing the dissociation of the protein from the membrane.