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ArticleBioelectrochemistry (Amsterdam, Netherlands)2022

Determining tissue conductivity in tissue ablation by nanosecond pulsed electric fields.

Edwin A Oshin, Siqi Guo, Chunqi Jiang

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Article in Bioelectrochemistry (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Nanosecond pulse electric field treatment initiates mitochondrial apoptosis pathway by inducing mitochondrial morphological changes in myocardial cells.Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing · 2024
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3 authors.

Edwin A OshinFrank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Old, Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA.
Siqi GuoFrank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA.
Chunqi JiangFrank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Old, Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA. Electronic address: cjiang@odu.edu.

Funding

The abscopal effect of nanosecond electric pulse tumor ablation and its enhancement for metastatic breast cancerR21CA229939 · NCI · OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY · PI GUO, SIQI · 2018 to 2019
$366k
NCI NIH HHS R21 CA229939
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nanosecond pulsed electric field (nsPEF) causes the permeabilization of the cell membrane and has been used to non-thermally treat cancerous tissues. As increased permeabilization in membranes were reported to be accompanied by impedance changes, the ablation effect of nsPEF on tissues can be monitored via the changes in tissue conductivity. In this study, effects of nsPEF on biological tissues were evaluated by determining the conductivities of potato and 4 T1-luc breast tumor tissues ex vivo from a murine model subjected to multiple 100-ns, 1-10 kV pulses. Using a four-needle electrode system with a calibrated electrode constant of 1.1 ± 0.1 cm, the conductivities of tissues was determined from both the network-analyzer measurement, before and after treatment, and voltage-current measurement in real-time. The conductivity of the potato tissue was measured for a frequency range of 0.1-3 MHz, and it increased with increasing pulse number and voltage amplitude. The conductivity of the tumor tissue was also observed to increase with pulse number and pulse voltage over a similar frequency range. In addition, the linear correlation between the ablation area in a treated potato tissue and the conductivity change in the tissue suggests that conductivity analysis of biological tissue under treatment could be a fast and sensitive approach to evaluate the effectiveness of a nsPEF treatment.

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Electric ConductivitySolanum tuberosumAblation TechniquesAnimalsCell Line, TumorElectricityElectroporationFemaleMiceBioimpedanceCancer therapyElectropermeabilizationElectroporationImpedance measurement

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PMID34583212
PMCPMC8643318

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