Thomas Rainer Heimburg

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• 2025

  The mechanical properties of nerves, the size of the action potential, and consequences for the brain

  Heimburg, T., 1 Mar 2025, In: Chemistry and Physics of Lipids. 267, 14 p., 105461.

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• 2023

  The excitable fluid mosaic

  Heimburg, T., 1 Mar 2023, In: B B A - Biomembranes. 1865, 3, 11 p., 184104.

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• 2022

  The effect of stretching on nerve excitability

  Heimburg, T., 7 Oct 2022, In: Human Movement Science. 86, 10 p., 103000.

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• 2021

  Non-linear Conductance, Rectification, and Mechanosensitive Channel Formation of Lipid Membranes

  Zecchi, K. A. & Heimburg, T., 26 Jan 2021, In: Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 8, 18 p., 592520.

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• 2020

  Comment on "On biological signaling" by G. Nimtz and H. Aichmann, Z. Naturforsch. 75a: 507-509, 2020

  Jackson, A. D. & Heimburg, T., Nov 2020, In: Zeitschrift für Naturforschung. A, A Journal of Physical Sciences. 75, 11, p. 933-935 3 p.

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• 2019

  Calcium electroporation and electrochemotherapy for cancer treatment: Importance of cell membrane composition investigated by lipidomics, calorimetry and in vitro efficacy

  Hoejholt, K. L., Muzic, T., Jensen, S. D., Dalgaard, L. T., Bilgin, M., Nylandsted, J., Heimburg, T., Frandsen, S. K. & Gehl, J., 18 Mar 2019, In: Scientific Reports. 9, 12 p., 4758.

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• Melting transitions in biomembranes

  Muzic, T., Tounsi, F., Madsen, S. B., Pollakowski, D., Konrad, M. & Heimburg, T., 26 Sep 2019, In: B B A - Biomembranes. 1861, 11, 11 p., 183026.

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• 2018

  Comment on Tamagawa and Ikeda's reinterpretation of the Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz equation: Are transmembrane potentials caused by polarization?

  Heimburg, T., 5 Oct 2018, In: European Biophysics Journal. 47, 8, p. 865-867 3 p.

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• Is a constant low-entropy process at the root of glycolytic oscillations?

  Thoke, H. S., Olsen, L. F., Duelund, L., Stock, R. P., Heimburg, T. & Bagatolli, L. A., Sep 2018, In: Journal of Biological Physics. 44, 3, p. 419-431

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• The free energy of biomembrane and nerve excitation and the role of anesthetics

  Wang, T., Muzic, T., Jackson, A. D. & Heimburg, T., 16 Oct 2018, In: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes. 1860, 10, p. 2145-2153 9 p.

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• 2017

  Linear nonequilibrium thermodynamics of reversible periodic processes and chemical oscillations

  Heimburg, T., 14 Jul 2017, In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19, 26, p. 17331-17341

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• Reply to "Comment on 'Penetration of Action Potentials During Collision in the Median and Lateral Giant Axons of Invertebrates'"

  Wang, T., Gonzalez-Perez, A., Budvytyte, R., Jackson, A. D. & Heimburg, T., 24 Apr 2017, In: Physical Review X. 7, 2, 028002.

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• Thermodynamics of lipid multi-lamellar vesicles in presence of sterols at high hydrostatic pressure

  Peters, J., Marion, J., Becher, F. J., Trapp, M., Gutberlet, T., Bicout, D. J. & Heimburg, T., 10 Nov 2017, In: Scientific Reports. 7, 15339.

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• 2016

  Non-invasive detection of animal nerve impulses with an atomic magnetometer operating near quantum limited sensitivity

  Jensen, K., Budvytyte, R., Thomas, R. A., Wang, T., Fuchs, A. M., Balabas, M. V., Vasilakis, G., Mosgaard, L. D., Stærkind, H. C., Müller, J. H., Heimburg, T., Olesen, S-P. & Polzik, E. S., 15 Jul 2016, In: Scientific Reports. 6, 29638.

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• Solitary electromechanical pulses in lobster neurons

  Perez, A. G., Mosgaard, L. D., Budvytyte, R., Villagran-Vargas, E., Jackson, A. D. & Heimburg, T., Sep 2016, In: Biophysical Chemistry. 216, p. 51-59

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• 2015

  Mechano-capacitive properties of polarized membranes

  Mosgaard, L. D., Zecchi, K. A. & Heimburg, T., 21 Aug 2015, In: Soft Matter. 11, 40, p. 7899-7910

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• Protein reconstitution into freestanding planar lipid membranes for electrophysiological characterization

  Gutsmann, T., Heimburg, T., Keyser, U., Mahendran, K. R. & Winterhalter, M., 10 Jan 2015, In: Nature Protocols (Print). 10, 1, p. 188-198

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• The Effect of the Nonlinearity of the Response of Lipid Membranes to Voltage Perturbations on the Interpretation of Their Electrical Properties. A New Theoretical Description

  Mosgaard, L. D., Zecchi, K. A., Heimburg, T. & Budvytyte, R., Dec 2015, In: Membranes. 5, 4, p. 495-512

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• 2014

  Action Potential Collision in Nerves

  Budvytyte, R., Gonzalez-Perez, A., Mosgaard, L. & Heimburg, T., 28 Jan 2014, In: Biophysical Society. Annual Meeting. Abstracts. 106, 2, p. 794A-794A

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• Are Local Anesthetics and General Anesthetics Different?

  Sasse-Middelhoff, H., Zecchi, K. & Heimburg, T., 28 Jan 2014, In: Biophysical Society. Annual Meeting. Abstracts. 106, 2, p. 705A-705A

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• Penetration of Action Potentials During Collision in the Median and Lateral Giant Axons of Invertebrates

  Gonzalez-Perez, A., Budvytyte, R., Mosgaard, L. D., Nissen, S. & Heimburg, T., 10 Sep 2014, In: Physical Review X. 4, 3, 031047.

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• The Thermodynamics of General and Local Anesthesia

  Graesboll, K., Sasse-Middelhoff, H. & Heimburg, T., 20 May 2014, In: Biophysical Journal. 106, 10, p. 2143-2156

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• 2013

  Fluctuations of systems in finite heat reservoirs with applications to phase transitions in lipid membranes

  Mosgaard, L. D., Jackson, A. D. & Heimburg, T. R., 25 Sep 2013, In: Journal of Chemical Physics. 139, 12, 125101.

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• Lipid Ion Channels and the Role of Proteins

  Mosgaard, L. D. & Heimburg, T. R., 31 Jul 2013, In: Accounts of Chemical Research. 46, 12, p. 2966-2976

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• Mechanical Signals in Nerves during Action Potential Propagation

  Perez, A. G. & Heimburg, T. R., 29 Jan 2013, In: Biophysical Journal. 104, 2, p. 78A-78A

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• Variations in interpulse interval of double action potentials during propagation in single neurons

  Villagran-Vargas, E., Rodriguez-Sosa, L., Hustert, R., Blicher, A., Laub, K. R. & Heimburg, T. R., 2013, In: Synapse. 67, 2, p. 68-78 11 p.

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• Voltage-gated lipid ion channels

  Blicher, A. & Heimburg, T. R., 2013, In: P L o S One. 8, 6, e65707.

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• 2012

  A comparison of the Hodgkin-Huxley model and the soliton theory for the action potential in nerves

  Appali, R., van Rienen, U. & Heimburg, T. R., 2012, In: Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes. 16, p. 275-299

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• Comparing ion conductance recordings of synthetic lipid bilayers with cell membranes containing TRP channels

  Laub, K. R., Witschas, K., Blicher, A., Madsen, S. B., Lückhoff, A. & Heimburg, T. R., 2012, In: BBA General Subjects. 1818, 5, p. 1123-1134

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• Soliton collision in biomembranes and nerves - A stability study.

  Appali, R., Lautrup, B. E., Heimburg, T. R. & van Rienen, U., 2012, In: Journal of Mathematics in Industry. 16, p. 205-212

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• The Capacitance and Electromechanical Coupling of Lipid Membranes Close to Transitions: The Effect of Electrostriction

  Heimburg, T. R., 5 Sep 2012, In: Biophysical Journal. 103, 5, p. 918-929

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• 2011

  Periodic solutions and refractory periods in the soliton theory for nerves and the locust femoral nerve

  Vargas, V., Ludu, A., Hustert, R., Gumrich, P., Jackson, A. D. & Heimburg, T. R., 1 Jan 2011, In: Biophysical Chemistry. 153, 2-3, p. 159-167 8 p.

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• The stability of solitons in biomembranes and nerves

  Lautrup, B. E., Appali, R., Jackson, A. D. & Heimburg, T. R., 9 Jun 2011, In: The European Physical Journal E: Soft Matter and Biological Physics. 34, 57, p. 11057 9 p.

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• 2010

  Critical behavior of polystyrene-cyclohexane

  Mirzaev, SZ., Kaatze, U. & Heimburg, T. R., 7 Dec 2010, In: Physical Review E (Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics). 82, 6, part 1, p. 061502 6 p.

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• Influence of Lipid Heterogeneity and Phase Behavior on Phospholipase A(2) Action at the Single Molecule Level

  Gudmand, M. J., Rocha, S., Hatzakis, N., Peneva, K., Müllen, K., Stamou, D., Uji-I, H., Hofkens, J., Bjørnholm, T. & Heimburg, T. R., 5 May 2010, In: Biophysical Journal. 98, 9, p. 1873-82 10 p.

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• Interference of mesoscales in the critical behaviour of polystyrene-cyclohexane: heat capacity and mass density

  Mirzaev, S. Z., Heimburg, T. R. & Kaatze, U., 7 Dec 2010, In: Physical Review E (Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics). 82, 6, p. 061502 6 p.

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• Ion-channel-like behavior in lipid bilayer membranes at the melting transition

  Gallaher, J., Wodzinska, K., Heimburg, T. R. & Bier, M., 30 Jun 2010, In: Physical Review E (Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics). 81, 6, Part 1, p. 061925 5 p.

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• Lipid ion channels

  Heimburg, T. R., 1 Aug 2010, In: Biophysical Chemistry. 150, 1-3, p. 2-22 20 p.

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• 2009

  Die physik von nerven

  Heimburg, T. R., 2009, In: Physik Journal (Print). 8, p. 33-39 6 p.

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• Diffusion and Partitioning of Fluorescent Lipid Probes in Phospholipid Monolayers

  Gudmand, M., Fidorra, M., Bjørnholm, T. & Heimburg, T. R., 2009, In: Biophysical Journal. 96, 11, p. 4598-4609 12 p.

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• Direct visualization of the lateral structure of porcine brain cerebrosides/POPC mixtures in presence and absence of cholesterol

  Fidorra, M., Heimburg, T. R. & Bagatolli, L. A., 2009, In: Biophysical Journal. 97, 1, p. 142-154 12 p.

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• Melting of individual lipid components in binary lipid mixtures studied by FTIR spectroscopy. DSC and Monte Carlo simulations

  Fidorra, M., Heimburg, T. R. & Seeger, H. M., 2009, In: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes. 1788, 3, p. 600-607 7 p.

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• Phase-state dependent current fluctuation in pure lipid membranes

  Wunderlich, B., Leirer, C. & Heimburg, T. R., 2009, In: Biophysical Journal. 96, 11, p. 4592-4597 5 p.

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• The influence of vesicle size and composition on alpha-synuclein structure and stability

  Kjær, L., Giehm, L., Otzen, D. & Heimburg, T. R., 2009, In: Biophysical Journal. 96, 7, p. 2857-2870 13 p.

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• Themed issue: membrane biophysics

  Heimburg, T. R., 2009, In: Soft Matter. 5, 17, p. 3145-3147 2 p.

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• The temperature dependence of lipid membrane permeability, its quantized nature, and the influence of anesthetics

  Blicher, A., Wodzinska, K., Fidorra, M., Winterhalter, M. & Heimburg, T. R., 2009, In: Biophysical Journal. 96, 11, p. 4581-4591 10 p.

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• The thermodynamics of lipid ion channel formation in the absence and presence of anesthetics. BLM experiments and simulations

  Wodzinska, K., Blicher, A. & Heimburg, T. R., 2009, In: Soft Matter. 5, 17, p. 3319-3330 11 p.

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• Towards a thermodynamic theory of nerve pulse propagation

  Andersen, S. SSL., Jackson, A. D. & Heimburg, T. R., 2009, In: Progress in Neurobiology. 88, 2, p. 104-113 9 p.

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• 2008

  Lipid membrane domain formation and alamethicin aggregation studied by calorimetry, sound velocity measurements, and atomic force microscopy

  Oliynyk, V., Jäger, M., Heimburg, T. R., Buckin, V. & Kaatze, U., 2008, In: Biophysical Chemistry. 134, 3, p. 168-177 10 p.

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• The temperature depencence  and quantized nature of lipid membrane permeability

  Blicher, A., Wodzinska, K., Fidorra, M., Winterhalter, M. & Heimburg, T. R., 2008, In: Biophysical Journal. 96, 3, p. 160a-

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