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Tethered bilayer lipid membranes (tBLMs) anchored to a solid substrate can be prepared and individual triangular voltage ramps from zero to 500 mV with a period of 2–10 ms applied to give membrane voltage dependencies with and without the addition of drugs and analytes in order to measure their electro-insertion properties.
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Alobeedallah, H., Cornell, B.A., Coster, H. (2022). Measuring Voltage–Current Characteristics of Tethered Bilayer Lipid Membranes to Determine the Electro-Insertion Properties of Analytes. In: Cranfield, C.G. (eds) Membrane Lipids. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2402. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1843-1_5
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