Electroporation therapy: A new approach for the treatment of head and neck cancer

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 752-759

  Hofmann, G A ^a   Dev, S B ^a   Dimmer, S ^a   Nanda, G S ^a  

^a Inovio Biomedical Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Bleomycin, electrochemotherapy, electroporation therapy, head and neck cancer

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANES; CELLS; CHEMOTHERAPY; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY;

ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; ELECTROPORATION THERAPY;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

BLEOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG UPTAKE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; ELECTROPORATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRATUMORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PULSE GENERATOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BIOPSY; BLEOMYCIN; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ELECTROPORATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; REMISSION INDUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032983635     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.764952     Document Type: Article

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