Cold plasma selectivity and the possibility of a paradigm shift in cancer therapy

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 105, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1295-1301

  Keidar, M ^a,b   Walk, R ^c   Shashurin, A ^a,b   Srinivasan, P ^c   Sandler, A ^c   Dasgupta, S ^d   Ravi, R ^e   Guerrero Preston, R ^e   Trink, B ^b,e  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Applied Plasma Science LLC   (United States)

^c CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer treatment; cold plasma; tumour ablation

Indexed keywords

REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER THERAPY; COLD PLASMA; COLD TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG CANCER; MELANOMA CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TUMOR ABLATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; PLASMA GASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN TEMPERATURE; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80054972198     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2011.386     Document Type: Article

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