Cold plasma cancer therapy /
Michael Keidar, Dayun Yan and Jonathan H. Sherman.
- 1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (chiefly color).
- [IOP release 6] IOP concise physics, 2053-2571 .
- IOP (Series). Release 6. IOP concise physics. .
"Version: 20190301"--Title page verso. "A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Plasma as a fourth state of matter -- 1.1. Plasma types -- 2. Introduction to the non-thermal plasmas 3. The anti-cancer effect of cold atmospheric plasma in vitro -- 3.1. The research status -- 3.2. The specific vulnerability of cancer cells to CAP -- 3.3. The long-term cellular responses -- 3.4. The selective anti-cancer effect -- 3.5. The sho 4. The anti-cancer mechanism of cold atmospheric plasma in vitro -- 4.1. The activation of cancer cells -- 4.2. The reactive species -- 4.3. The rise of intracellular ROS -- 4.4. The selective anti-cancer mechanism 5. The anti-cancer effect of CAP treatment in vivo -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. The in vivo demonstration -- 5.3. The clinical demonstration -- 5.4. Mechanism -- 5.5. Reactive species and skin 6. Indirect CAP treatment, the application of the cold atmospheric plasma-activated solutions in cancer treatment -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. The CAP-activated medium -- 6.3. The reactive species in PAS -- 6.4. The principles to make PAS 7. Adaptive plasmas and recent progress in plasma application in cancer therapy -- 7.1. Plasma self-organization phenomena -- 7.2. Adaptive plasma devices -- 7.3. MPC-based adaptive plasma platform 8. Clinical applications of cold atmospheric plasma for glioblastoma -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Cold atmospheric plasma as a potential mediator of immune stimulation -- 8.3. Cold atmospheric plasma-mediated inflammation as a promoter of mesenc
Cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) has emerged as a possible new modality for cancer treatment. This book provides a comprehensive introduction into fundamentals of the CAP and plasma devices used in plasma medicine. An analysis of the mechanisms of
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Michael Keidar is the A. James Clark Professor of Engineering at George Washington University. His research concerns advanced spacecraft propulsion, plasma-based nanotechnology, and plasma medicine. He has authored over 260 journal articles and