The anti-glioblastoma effect of cold atmospheric plasma treatment: physical pathway v.s. chemical pathway.

Scientific Reports
Dayun YanMichael Keidar

Abstract

Cold atmospheric plasma (CAP), a near room temperature ionized gas, has shown potential application in many branches of medicine, particularly in cancer treatment. In previous studies, the biological effect of CAP on cancer cells and other mammalian cells has been based solely on the chemical factors in CAP, particularly the reactive species. Therefore, plasma medicine has been regarded as a reactive species-based medicine, and the physical factors in CAP such as the thermal effect, ultraviolet irradiation, and electromagnetic effect have been regarded as ignorable factors. In this study, we investigated the effect of a physical CAP treatment on glioblastoma cells. For the first time, we demonstrated that the physical factors in CAP could reinstate the positive selectivity on CAP-treated astrocytes. The positive selectivity was a result of necrosis, a new cell death in glioblastoma cells characterized by the leak of bulk water from the cell membrane. The physically-based CAP treatment overcomed a large limitation of the traditional chemically based CAP treatment, which had complete dependence on the sensitivity of cells to reactive species. The physically-based CAP treatment is a potential non-invasive anti-tumor tool, which ma...Continue Reading

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