Nanoelectroablation of human pancreatic carcinoma in a murine xenograft model without recurrence

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 132, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1933-1939

  Nuccitelli, Richard ^a   Huynh, Joanne ^a   Lui, Kaying ^a   Wood, Ryan ^a   Kreis, Mark ^a   Athos, Brian ^a   Nuccitelli, Pamela ^a  

^a BIOELECTROMED CORP   (United States)

Author keywords

angiogenesis; apoptosis; nanoelectroablation; nanosecond pulsed electric fields; necrosis

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NANOELECTROABLATION; NANOSECOND PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ELECTRICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RECURRENCE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 84873997564     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.27860     Document Type: Article

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