Nonthermal plasma needle: Development and targeting of melanoma cells

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 38, Issue 4 PART 4, 2010, Pages 948-952

  Zirnheld, Jennifer L ^a   Zucker, Shoshanna N ^a   DiSanto, Thomas M ^b   Berezney, Ronald ^b   Etemadi, Kasra ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric pressure plasma jet; Melanoma cells; Nonequilibrium plasma

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE PLASMAS; CANCER TREATMENT; COCULTURE; EFFECTIVE TOOL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; KERATINOCYTES; MELANOMA CELLS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; NONEQUILIBRIUM PLASMAS; NONTHERMAL PLASMA; PLASMA TREATMENT;

CELLS; DERMATOLOGY; ONCOLOGY; PLASMA ACCELERATORS; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; PLASMA JETS;

PLASMAS;

EID: 77951022508     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2010.2041470     Document Type: Article

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