Perturbation of blood flow as a mechanism of anti-tumour action of direct current electrotherapy

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 75-90

  Jarm, Tomaž ^a   Čemažar, Maja ^b   Steinberg, Fritz ^c,d   Streffer, Christian ^c   Serša, Gregor ^b   Miklavčič, Damijan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Direct current electrotherapy (DC ET); Electrochemical treatment; Experimental tumours; Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS); Oxygenation; Patent Blue Violet dye (PBV); Polarographic oximetry (pO2)

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; ELECTRODES; HEMODYNAMICS; INFRARED DEVICES; MAMMALS; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; POLAROGRAPHS; TUMORS;

BLOOD FLOW; DIRECT CURRENT ELECTROTHERAPY; DIRECT-CURRENT; ELECTROCHEMICAL TREATMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL TUMOR; NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OXIMETRY; PATENT BLUE VIOLET DYE; POLAROGRAPHIC OXIMETRY (PO2); VIOLET DYES;

OXYGENATION;

DISULFINE BLUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECT CURRENT ELECTROTHERAPY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FIBROSARCOMA; HEMOPERFUSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOUSE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OXIMETRY; OXYGENATION; POLAROGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING;

ANIMALIA; VIOLA ADUNCA;

EID: 0037298292     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/24/1/306     Document Type: Article

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