Combined electric field and ultrasound therapy as a novel anti-tumour treatment

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1339-1348

  Larkin, J ^a   Soden, D ^a   Collins, C ^a   Tangney, M ^a   Preston, J M ^b   Russell, L J ^b   McHale, A P ^b   Dunne, C ^a   O'Sullivan, G C ^a  

^a MERCY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CEFUS; Electroporation; Minimally invasive; Therapy; Tumour; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; FEMALE; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; SOLID TUMOR; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR GROWTH; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; WAVEFORM;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIVISION; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; NEEDLES; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 20444481690     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2005.01.025     Document Type: Article

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