Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2015

Publication Title

PLoS One

Volume

10

Issue

4

Pages

e0122973

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0122973

Abstract

Background: Electroporation, a method for increasing the permeability of membranes to ions and small molecules, is used in the clinic with chemotherapeutic drugs for cancer treatment (electrochemotherapy). Electroporation with calcium causes ATP (adenosine triphosphate) depletion and cancer cell death and could be a novel cancer treatment. This study aims at understanding the relationship between applied electric field, calcium concentration, ATP depletion and efficacy. Methods: In three human cell lines — H69 (small-cell lung cancer), SW780 (bladder cancer), and U937 (leukaemia), viability was determined after treatment with 1, 3, or 5 mM calcium and eight 99 μs pulses with 0.8, 1.0, 1.2, 1.4 or 1.6 kV/cm. Fitting analysis was applied to quantify the cell-killing efficacy in presence of calcium. Post-treatment intracellular ATP was measured in H69 and SW780 cells. Post-treatment intracellular ATP was observed with fluorescence confocal microscopy of quinacrine-labelled U937 cells. Results: Both H69 and SW780 cells showed dose-dependent (calcium concentration and electric field) decrease in intracellular ATP (p

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Original article:

Hansen EL, Sozer EB, Romeo S, Frandsen SK, Vernier P, Gehl J (2015) Dose-Dependent ATP Depletion and Cancer Cell Death following Calcium Electroporation, Relative Effect of Calcium Concentration and Electric Field Strength. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0122973. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0122973

Original Publication Citation

Hansen EL, Sozer EB, Romeo S, Frandsen SK, Vernier P, Gehl J (2015) Dose-Dependent ATP Depletion and Cancer Cell Death following Calcium Electroporation, Relative Effect of Calcium Concentration and Electric Field Strength. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0122973. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0122973

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