Optimized nanosecond pulsed electric field therapy can cause murine malignant melanomas to self-destruct with a single treatment
✍ Scribed by Richard Nuccitelli; Kevin Tran; Saleh Sheikh; Brian Athos; Mark Kreis; Pamela Nuccitelli
- Book ID
- 102865187
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 981 KB
- Volume
- 127
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7136
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
We have identified a new, nanosecond pulsed electric field (nsPEF) therapy capable of eliminating murine melanomas located in the skin with a single treatment. When these optimized parameters are used, nsPEFs initiate apoptosis without hyperthermia. We have developed new suction electrodes that are compatible with human skin and have applied them to a xenograft nude mouse melanoma model system to identify the optimal field strength, pulse frequency and pulse number for the treatment of murine melanomas. A single treatment using the optimal pulse parameters (2,000 pulses, 100 ns in duration, 30 kV/cm in amplitude at a pulse frequency of 5–7 pulses/sec) eliminated all 17 melanomas treated with those parameters in 4 mice. This was the highest pulse frequency that we could use without raising the treated skin tumor temperature above 40°C. We also demonstrate that the effects of nsPEF therapy are highly localized to only cells located between electrodes and results in very little scarring of the nsPEF‐treated skin.