Electroendocytosis of Cancer Cells : Bipolar Asymmetric Electric Pulses

ISBN-13: 9783330004382 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 140 str.

Amr Abd-Elghany

Opis

The influence of electrical fields on living cells represents an important meeting area for the physical and biological sciences, where there remains on-going fundamental research. During the last decades, different approaches have been developed to incorporate macromolecules into cells one of them is based on an electrically driven process (electroporation) where cells are exposed to high intensity electric pulses for short durations of micro-to milliseconds. This exposure leads to the formation of electropores, which enables the diffusion of small molecules across the membrane or the uptake of large molecules through mechanisms including electrophoresis. Electroendocytosis of Cancer Cells includes a study made to evaluate the effect of low intensity bipolar asymmetric electric pulses on the endocytotic activity of cancer cells comparing it with previous studies examined the influence of different pulse shapes on electroendocytosis.

O autorze

Amr A. Abd-Elghany Assistant professor of Medical Biophysics in Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, College of Applied Medical Sciences, PrinceSattam Bin Abdulaziz University, KSA, and Biophysics Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Egypt.