Principles of using Cold Atmospheric Plasma Stimulated Media for Cancer Treatment

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Yan, Dayun ^a   Talbot, Annie ^b   Nourmohammadi, Niki ^b   Cheng, Xiaoqian ^a   Canady, Jerome ^c   Sherman, Jonathan ^d   Keidar, Michael ^a  

^a George Washington University   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Jerome Canady Research Institute for Advanced Biological and Technological Sciences   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; PLASMA GAS; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TRYPTOPHAN;

APOPTOSIS; CHEMISTRY; COLD; DRUG EFFECTS; HUMAN; MCF-7 CELL LINE; METABOLISM; PHARMACOLOGY; PLASMA GAS; TUMOR CELL LINE;

APOPTOSIS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COLD TEMPERATURE; CYSTEINE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MCF-7 CELLS; NITRIC OXIDE; PLASMA GASES; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 84950341628     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep18339     Document Type: Article

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