Electroporation-induced cell sensitization was described as the occurrence of a delayed hypersensitivity to electric pulses caused by pretreating cells with electric pulses. It was achieved by increasing the duration of the electroporation treatment at the same cumulative energy input. It could be exploited in electroporation-based treatments such as electrochemotherapy and tissue ablation with...

BACKGROUND Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) plays an essential role in hepatic development and regeneration, and shows proliferative and antiapoptotic activity in hepatocytes. AIMS To establish an effective new method for HGF gene transfer in vivo and to investigate its effects in acute experimental liver injury. ANIMALS Eight week old female mice were used. METHODS Rat HGF gene in a modifi...

PURPOSE Gene-based immunotherapy for cancer is limited by the lack of safe, efficient, reproducible, and titratable delivery methods. Direct injection of DNA into tissue, although safer than viral vectors, suffers from low gene transfer efficiency. In vivo electroporation, in preclinical models, significantly enhances gene transfer efficiency while retaining the safety advantages of plasmid DNA...

PURPOSE Transdermal electroporation has become one of the most promising noninvasive methods for drug administration, with greatly increased transport of macromolecules through the skin. The cecal-contracting effects of repeated transdermal electroporation delivery and intravenous administration of neostigmine were compared in anesthetized rats. METHODS The cecal contractions were detected wi...

Ascidians are marine protochordates at the evolutionary boundary between invertebrates and vertebrates. Ascidian larvae provide a simple system for unraveling gene regulation networks underlying the formation of the basic chordate body plan. After being used for over a century as a model for embryological studies, ascidians have become, in the past decade, an increasingly popular organism for s...

Electroporation is an efficient method of introducing foreign impermeant molecules such as drugs and genes into cells. Conventional electroporation has been based on the application of short electrical pulses (electropulsation). Electropulsation requires specialized equipment and cannot be integrated easily with techniques such as electrophoresis which is based on constant voltage. Here we demo...

Although transdermal drug delivery has many potential advantages, the permeability of skin to macromolecules is extremely low. However, the application of short, high-voltage pulses to electroporate skin has recently been shown to make it reversibly permeable. A number of studies have demonstrated that electroporation-mediated transdermal delivery of peptides, polysaccharides, oligonucleotides ...

The optical recording of light-evoked activity in populations of neurons in the mammalian retina offers several benefits over the use of multielectrode arrays. However, population imaging has been hindered by the effective loading of synthetic fluorescent indicators, especially in the mature tissue. We have therefore developed an electroporation method to label the complete ganglion cell layer ...

Continuous flow cell lysis by electroporation (EP), and cell and bead trapping by dielectrophoresis (DEP) have been demonstrated on a dielectrophoretic microfluidic chip. The results of lysing human white blood cells (WBC) and murine clonal cells (MN9D) by electroporation s a a m c ©

Electroporation is a technique in which, under the influence of electric field, the permeability of the cell membrane increases due to the formation of pores in the cell membrane, providing pathways for molecular transport (Abidor et al. 1979, Neumann et al. 1998, Tsong 1991, Weaver and Chizmadzhev 1989, Zimmermann 1982). As electroporation is usually evaluated by indirect indications (Gehl and...