Conveners
Medicine
- Michael Keidar (George Washington University)
Medicine
- Michael Keidar (George Washington University)
Medicine: Summary and Discussion
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The uniqueness of low-temperature plasma is in its ability to change composition in situ. Plasma self-organization could lead to formation of coherent plasma structures. These coherent structures tend to modulate plasma chemistry and composition, including reactive species, the electric field and charged particles. Formation of coherent plasma structures allows the plasma to adapt to external...
Plasma processing technologies involve physical processes induced by electron collisions with precursors to produce unstable, short-lived reactive species that subsequently react with other species to generate various products. As an example, discharges in air with water vapor, a hydroxyl and nitrosyl radicals is first generated, following which chain growth occurs via initiation and...
Plasma medicine, defined as the application of non-equilibrium plasmas for therapeutic purposes, has made tremendous progress over the last decade, becoming a lively transdisciplinary research field where expertises from life sciences and medicine are combined with plasma physics, chemistry and engineering. Plasma application in wound healing is well on its way into clinical routine and...
Abstract
Atmospheric pressure (atm) cold plasmas could be utilized as biocatalysts in various bio-medical applications due to their unique properties, such as their ability to generate reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS). Plasma biocatalysts on living cells and tissues have been studied extensively, and researchers have identified several influential...
1 Introduction: Molecular/gene introduction by plasma
The authors examined various plasma sources for gene/molecular introduction into cells[1]. We found that the micro-discharge plasma with a counter electrode provides electrical current to cells in this configuration, simultaneously achieving high transfection efficiency and cell viability[1,2]. Since the plasma treatment time is short...
Atmospheric pressure non-thermal (i.e., cold) plasmas especially atmospheric pressure plasma jets are widely studied in plasma medicine and used for various therapeutic applications. These cold plasmas for tumor treatment or for skin infection etc. is promising and emerging field. Recently, the use of plasma in dermatology, cancer research and oncology are of particular interest. In this talk,...
