Apoptosis initiation and angiogenesis inhibition: Melanoma targets for nanosecond pulsed electric fields

Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 554-563

  Chen, Xinhua ^a   Kolb, Juergen F ^a   Swanson, R James ^a   Schoenbach, Karl H ^a   Beebe, Stephen J ^a,b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

angiogenesis; apoptosis; caspases; DNA damage; DNA double strand breaks; electric fields; non thermal effects

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3B RECEPTOR; DEOXYURIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHATASE; DNA; ENDOGLIN; HISTONE; PLATELET DERIVED ENDOTHELIAL CELL GROWTH FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MELANOMA; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL NUCLEUS SHAPE; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 77954721443     PISSN: 17551471     EISSN: 1755148X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-148X.2010.00704.x     Document Type: Article

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