期刊
BIOELECTROCHEMISTRY
卷 79, 期 1, 页码 114-121出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2010.01.001
关键词
Ultrashort electric pulses; Electroporation; Patch clamp; Membrane
资金
- National Cancer Institute [NIH R01CA125482]
- Air Force Research Laboratory
- HQAF SGRS Clinical Investigation Program
Ultrashort electric pulses (USEP) cause long-lasting increase of cell membrane electrical conductance, and that a single USEP increased cell membrane electrical conductance proportionally to the absorbed dose (AD) with a threshold of about 10 mJ/g. The present study extends quantification of the membrane permeabilization effect to multiple USEP and employed a more accurate protocol that identified USEP effect as the difference between post- and pre-exposure conductance values (Delta g) in individual cells. We showed that Delta g can be increased by either increasing the number of pulses at a constant E-field, or by increasing the E-field at a constant number of pulses. For 60-ns pulses, an E-field threshold of 6 kV/cm for a single pulse was lowered to less than 1.7 kV/cm by applying 100-pulse or longer trains. However, the reduction of the E-field threshold was only achieved at the expense of a higher AD compared to a single pulse exposure. Furthermore, the effect of multiple pulses was not fully determined by AD, suggesting that cells permeabilized by the first pulse(s) in the train become less vulnerable to subsequent pulses. This explanation was corroborated by a model that treated multiple-pulse exposures as a series of single-pulse exposures and assumed an exponential decline of cell susceptibility to USEP as Delta g increased after each pulse during the course of the train. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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