One of the challenges of the postgenomic era is characterizing the function and regulation of specific genes. For various reasons, the early chick embryo can easily be adopted as an in vivo assay of gene function and regulation. The embryos are robust, accessible, easily manipulated, and maintained in the laboratory. Genomic resources centered on vertebrate organisms increase daily. As a conseq...

INTRODUCTION Few studies have evaluated the efficacy of intralesional bleomycin injection combined with electroporation for the treatment of cutaneous tumors. However, the phenomenon that electroporation can enhance the cytotoxicity of bleomycin in vivo by 300-700 fold has been intensely investigated. CASE PRESENTATION Keratoacanthoma in an 86-year-old patient was treated with intralesional b...

A novel monopolar electroporation system and methodologies were developed for in vivo intended potential clinical applications such as gene therapy. We hypothesized that an asymmetric anode/cathode electrode applicator geometry could produce favorable electric fields electroporation, without the typical drawback associated with traditional needle parallel plate geometries. Three prototypes buil...

Calcium electroporation (CaEP) describes the use of electric pulses (electroporation) to transiently permeabilize cells to allow supraphysiological doses of calcium to enter the cytosol. Calcium electroporation has successfully been investigated for treatment of cutaneous metastases in a clinical study. This preclinical study explores the possible use of calcium electroporation for treatment of...

Electrolysis, electrochemotherapy with reversible electroporation, nanosecond pulsed electric fields and irreversible electroporation are valuable non-thermal electricity based tissue ablation technologies. This paper reports results from the first large animal study of a new non-thermal tissue ablation technology that employs "Synergistic electrolysis and electroporation" (SEE). The goal of th...

OBJECTIVE. To investigate the clinical efficacy and safety of irreversible electroporation for ablation of liver tumour in humans. DATA SOURCES. The PubMed and MEDLINE databases were systematically searched. STUDY SELECTION. Clinical research published in English in the last 10 years until October 2013 that address clinical issues related to irreversible electroporation of human liver tumours w...

Electroporation, the application of electric fields to alter the permeability of biological membranes, has recently become a clinical tool for the electrochemotherapy treatment of various cancers. Current electroporation theory assumes that the membrane is permeabilized through the formation of conducting hydrophilic pores, stabilized by rearrangement of lipid head groups. Here we have performe...

Electroporation is already an established technique in several areas of medicine, but many of its biotechnological applications have only started to emerge; we review here some of the most promising. We outline electroporation as a phenomenon and then proceed to applications, first outlining the best established - the use of reversible electroporation for heritable genetic modification of micro...

Sinomenine hydrochloride (SH) is an ideal drug for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis. However, high plasma concentration of systemically administered SH can release histamine, which can cause rash and gastrointestinal side effects. Topical delivery can increase SH concentration in the synovial fluid without high plasma level, thus minimizing systemic side effects. However...

Targeted drug delivery is one of the most important areas in pharmacology. The can be placed a liposomal shell and destroyed it specific location body using electroporation. In many experiments on study electroporation, bilayer lipid membrane BLM (black film) used as model for action an electric field. characteristic pore size during electroporation several nanometers, which corresponds to thic...