Subnanosecond electric pulses cause membrane permeabilization and cell death

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1239-1245

  Xiao, Shu ^a   Guo, Siqi ^a   Nesin, Vasyl ^a   Heller, Richard ^a   Schoenbach, Karl H ^a  

^a Old Dominion University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell death; current rectifying; permeabilization; pulsed electric field; subnanosecond pulses

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR LEVELS; CURRENT RECTIFYING; ELECTRIC FIELD INTENSITIES; ELECTRIC PULSE; ELECTRICAL EFFECTS; EXPOSURE TIME; LETHAL EFFECTS; MELANOMA CELLS; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILIZATION; NON-THERMAL PROCESS; PERMEABILIZATION; PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD; SUB-NANOSECOND PULSE; SUBNANOSECOND; TEMPERATURE RISE; TRANSMEMBRANE CURRENTS;

CELL DEATH; CELL MEMBRANES; DISTILLATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MEMBRANES; POPULATION STATISTICS;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SURVIVAL; DIODE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRICITY; EXPOSURE; GLIOMA CELL; MELANOMA CELL; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; THERMAL STIMULATION; TIME;

ANIMALS; BLEOMYCIN; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPORATION; MICE; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79955530415     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2112360     Document Type: Article

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