Emerging innovations in cold plasma therapy against cancer: A paradigm shift

SK Dubey, N Dabholkar, UN Pal, G Singhvi… - Drug discovery today, 2022 - Elsevier
Cancer is one of the major causes of mortality, accounting for∼ 9.5 million deaths globally in
2018. The spectrum of conventional treatment for cancer includes surgery, chemotherapy …

Plasma with high electron density and plasma-activated medium for cancer treatment

H Tanaka, M Mizuno, K Ishikawa, H Kondo… - Clinical Plasma …, 2015 - Elsevier
Cancer treatment using non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma is a brand new and
challenging approach for cancer therapy. Conventional cancer therapies are surgery, radio …

The influence of cell type and culture medium on determining cancer selectivity of cold atmospheric plasma treatment

E Biscop, A Lin, W Van Boxem, J Van Loenhout… - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Increasing the selectivity of cancer treatments is attractive, as it has the potential to reduce
side-effects of therapy. Cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) is a novel cancer treatment that …

Visible tumor surface response to physical plasma and apoptotic cell kill in head and neck cancer

M Schuster, C Seebauer, R Rutkowski… - Journal of Cranio …, 2016 - Elsevier
The aim of the study was to learn, whether clinical application of cold atmospheric pressure
plasma (CAP) is able to cause (i) visible tumor surface effects and (ii) apoptotic cell kill in …

Effect of plasma-activated lactated ringer's solution on pancreatic cancer cells in vitro and in vivo

Y Sato, S Yamada, S Takeda, N Hattori… - Annals of surgical …, 2018 - Springer
Background The medical applications of nonequilibrium atmospheric pressure plasma in
cancer therapy have attracted attention. We previously reported on the antitumor effect of …

Micronucleus formation induced by dielectric barrier discharge plasma exposure in brain cancer cells

NK Kaushik, H Uhm, E Ha Choi - Applied Physics Letters, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Induction of micronucleus formation (cytogenetic damage) in brain cancer cells upon
exposure of dielectric barrier discharge plasma has been investigated. We have …

Direct cold atmospheric plasma and plasma‐activated medium effects on breast and cervix cancer cells

MA Jezeh, T Tayebi, MR Khani… - Plasma Processes …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, the effects of cold plasma and plasma‐activated medium (PAM) are
investigated through different treatment times, different intervals between treatment and …

Molecular mechanism of plasma sterilization in solution with the reduced pH method: importance of permeation of HOO radicals into the cell membrane

E Takai, S Ikawa, K Kitano, J Kuwabara… - Journal of Physics D …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Sterilization of certain infected areas of the human body surface is necessary for dental and
surgical therapies. Because the blood is filled with body fluid, sterilization in solution is …

Treatment of enterococcus faecalis bacteria by a helium atmospheric cold plasma brush with oxygen addition

W Chen, J Huang, N Du, XD Liu, XQ Wang… - Journal of Applied …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
An atmospheric cold plasma brush suitable for large area and low-temperature plasma-
based sterilization is designed. Results demonstrate that the He/O 2 plasma more effectively …

Contribution of hydrogen peroxide to non‐thermal atmospheric pressure plasma induced A549 lung cancer cell damage

J Ma, H Zhang, C Cheng, J Shen… - Plasma Processes and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐thermal plasma (NTP) can induce cancer cell death which is supposed to be mediated
by oxidative stress. In this work, the contribution of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in NTP …