Liposomes and Micelles

[vnicolas]

What is a micelle and what is a liposome and what the difference btwn them, reading EK Bio Lecture 3.5 and confused

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[MD Odyssey]

What is a micelle and what is a liposome and what the difference btwn them, reading EK Bio Lecture 3.5 and confused

Liposomes are constructed of a lipid bilayer. A micelle is just a bunch of phospholipids, with the polar region at the outside, forming a shell, with the lipid tails inside, excluding water from interior.

An analogy would be something like a hollow shell filled with water versus a solid shell with no water inside it. Google Images probably has some examples of this.