Membrane electroporation and electropermeabilization: mechanisms and models

T Kotnik, L Rems, M Tarek… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Exposure of biological cells to high-voltage, short-duration electric pulses causes a transient
increase in their plasma membrane permeability, allowing transmembrane transport of …

A review of basic to clinical studies of irreversible electroporation therapy

C Jiang, RV Davalos, JC Bischof - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of irreversible electroporation (IRE) for cancer treatment has increased sharply over
the past decade. As a nonthermal therapy, IRE offers several potential benefits over other …

[HTML][HTML] Models of electroporation and the associated transmembrane molecular transport should be revisited

M Scuderi, J Dermol-Černe, CA da Silva… - …, 2022 - Elsevier
Electroporation has become a powerful tool for nonviral delivery of various biomolecules
such as nucleic acids, proteins, and chemotherapeutic drugs to virtually any living cell by …

[HTML][HTML] Actin networks regulate the cell membrane permeability during electroporation

A Muralidharan, L Rems, MT Kreutzer… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2021 - Elsevier
Transient physical disruption of cell membranes by electric pulses (or electroporation) has
significance in biomedical and biological applications requiring the delivery of exogenous …

Plasma membrane permeability as an indicator of salt tolerance in plants

MMF Mansour - Biologia plantarum, 2013 - Springer
There is evidence that the plasma membrane (PM) permeability alterations might be
involved in plant salt tolerance. This review presents several lines of evidence …

Defect-Mediated Trafficking across Cell Membranes: Insights from in Silico Modeling

AA Gurtovenko, J Anwar, I Vattulainen - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
All living cells are surrounded by plasma membranes that separate the cell interior from the
extracellular environment and are responsible for the selective permeability of cells. 1 The …

Methods for non-invasive prenatal ploidy calling

M Rabinowitz, G Gemelos, M Banjevic, A Ryan… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
The present disclosure provides methods for determining the ploidy status of a chromosome
in a gestating fetus from genotypic data measured from a mixed sample of DNA comprising …

Specific electromagnetic effects of microwave radiation on Escherichia coli

Y Shamis, A Taube, N Mitik-Dineva… - Applied and …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
The present study investigated the effects of microwave (MW) radiation applied under a
sublethal temperature on Escherichia coli. The experiments were conducted at a frequency …

Detecting mutations and ploidy in chromosomal segments

J Babiarz, TP Constantin, LA Eubank… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
The invention provides methods, systems, and computer readable medium for detecting
ploidy of chromosome segments or entire chromosomes, for detecting single nucleotide …

Assessing membrane material properties from the response of giant unilamellar vesicles to electric fields

M Aleksanyan, HA Faizi, MA Kirmpaki… - … in physics: X, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Knowledge of the material properties of membranes is crucial to understanding cell viability
and physiology. A number of methods have been developed to probe membranes in vitro …