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ArticleEnvironmental health and preventive medicine2014

Non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasmas as a novel candidate for preventive therapy of melanoma.

Yasuhiro Omata, Machiko Iida, Ichiro Yajima, Kozue Takeda, Nobutaka Ohgami, Masaru Hori, Masashi Kato

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Article in Environmental health and preventive medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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Yasuhiro OmataDepartment of Occupational and Environmental Health, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, 466-8550, Japan.
Machiko Iida
Ichiro Yajima
Kozue Takeda
Nobutaka Ohgami
Masaru Hori
Masashi Kato
Nagoya University · JPChubu University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Due to the increased ultraviolet radiation, the incidence of melanoma is increasing worldwide more than that of any other cancer. In this study, the effects of irradiation of non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasmas (NEAPPs) on benign melanocytic tumors from our original hairless model mice (HL-RET-mice), in which benign melanocytic tumors and melanomas spontaneously develop in the skin stepwise, were examined. Expression levels of melanoma cell adhesion molecule (MCAM) and matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) mRNA in melanomas were higher than those in benign melanocytic tumors in the mice. Repeated irradiation of non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasmas (NEAPPs) for the benign tumors decreased the expression levels of MCAM and MMP-2 mRNA in the tumors from the mice. Previous studies showed that MCAM sites are upstream of MMP-2, that MCAM regulates transcription of MMP-2 in melanoma cells and that MMP-2 is associated with the conversion of a benign tumor to a malignant tumor. Therefore, our results suggest that the NEAPP irradiation-mediated decrease in the expression level of MMP-2 in benign melanocytic tumors is associated with decreased expression levels of MCAM. Moreover, NEAPP irradiation might be a potential candidate for therapy to prevent melanoma development through suppression of malignant conversion in benign melanocytic tumors.

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Gene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticAnimalsAtmospheric PressureCD146 AntigenCell Transformation, NeoplasticMatrix Metalloproteinase 2MelanomaMiceMice, HairlessPlasma GasesPolymerase Chain ReactionRNA, MessengerSkin NeoplasmsCD146 AntigenMatrix Metalloproteinase 2Mcam protein, mouseMmp2 protein, mousePlasma GasesRNA, Messenger

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PMID25037598
PMCPMC4166592
OpenAlexW1981836952

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