Long term survival of mice with hepatocellular carcinoma after pulse power ablation with nanosecond pulsed electric fields

Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 83-93

  Chen, X ^a,b   Zhuang, J ^a   Kolb, J F ^a   Schoenbach, K H ^a   Beebe, S J ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Apoptosis; Caspases; Electric fields; Micro vessel density; Non thermal ablation; TUNEL

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; CASPASE 6; CASPASE 7;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER SIZE; CARCINOMA CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PULSE POWER ABLATION; PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR ABLATION;

EID: 84055216998     PISSN: 15330346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7785/tcrt.2012.500237     Document Type: Article

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