Membrane Fluidity: Biophysical Techniques and Cellular Regulation

I Measurement of Membrane Lipid Composition and Fluidity.- New Approaches to Lipid Analyses of Lipoproteins and Cell Membranes.- Determination of Molecular Species of Glycerophospholipids by a GC-MS Selected Ion Monitoring Technique.- High-Precision TLC-Densitometry of Membrane Lipids.- The Pulmonary Surfactant: Control of Fluidity at the Air-Liquid Interface.- Fluidity of Membrane Lipids.- II Correlation of Membrane Fluidity with Physiological Activity.- Adaptive Regulation of Membrane Lipid Biosynthesis in Bacilli by Environmental Temperature.- Activity of Membrane-Bound Enzymes (Respiratory Chain) During Adaptation of Fish to Temperature Changes.- Effect of Membrane Lipid Composition on Mobility of Lymphocyte Surface Immunoglobulins.- Plasma Mebrane Mg2+ATPase Activity is Inversely Related to Lipid Fluidity.- Alkaline Phosphatase in Red Cell Membrane: Interconnection of Activities and Membrane Lipid Fluidity.- Membrane Permeability in Porcine Malignant Hyperthermia.- III Fatty Acid Changes Accompanying Physiological Events.- Role of Phospholipid Desaturase in Control of Membrane Fluidity.- Membrane Fluidity and the Activity of Bovine Brain Phospholipid Exchange Protein.- The Regulation of Bacterial Membrane Fluidity by Modification of Phospholipid Fatty Acyl Chain Length.- The Question of Membrane Fluidity in an Anaerobic General Fatty Acid Auxotroph.- Thermal Control of Fatty Acid Synthetase from Brevibacterium ammoniagenes.- Why Do Prokaryotes Regulate Membrane Fluidity?.- Docosahexaenoyl Chains Are Introduced into Phosphatidic Acid During de novo Synthesis in Retinal Microsomes.- IV Phospholipid Changes Accompanying Physiological Events.- Dynamics of Membrane Fatty Acids During Lymphocyte Stimulation by Mitogens.- Phosphatidylinositol as a Source of Diacylglycerol to Promote Membrane Fusion in Exocytosis.- Glycosphingolipid Domain Formation and Lymphoid Cell Activation.- Phospholipid Metabolism of Rat Gastric Mucosa.- Effect of Temperature on the Biosynthesis of 3-sn-Phosphatidylcholine by Fusarium oxysporum F. sp. Lycopersici.- In vivo Modification of Phospholipid Polar Head Groups and Alterations in Membrane Activities and Cellular Events.- V Homeostatic Regulation of Membrane Fluidity.- Homeostatic Control of Membrane Lipid Fluidity in Fusarium.- Homeoviscous Adaptation in Psychrophilic, Mesophilic, and Thermophilic Yeasts.- Regulation of Membrane Fluidity in Anaerobic Bacteria.- Regulation of Membrane Fluidity During Temperature Acclimation by Tetrahymena pyriformis.- Modification of Lipid Composition and Mebrane Fluidity in Tetrahymena.- Regulation of Phospholipid N-Methylation in the Hepatocyte.- Author Index.