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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 104, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4861373
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- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
- Ministry of Science, ICT, & Future Planning [NRF-2012M3A9B2052871, 2012M3A9B2052872]
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Cellular membrane dysfunction caused by air plasma in cancer cells has been studied to exploit atmospheric-pressure plasma jets for cancer therapy. Here, we report that plasma jet treatment of cervical cancer HeLa cells increased electrical conductivity across the cellular lipid membrane and caused simultaneous lipid oxidation and cellular membrane collapse. We made this finding by employing a self-manufactured microelectrode chip. Furthermore, increased roughness of the cellular lipid membrane and sequential collapse of the membrane were observed by atomic force microscopy following plasma jet treatment. These results suggest that the cellular membrane catastrophe occurs via coincident altered electrical conductivity, lipid oxidation, and membrane roughening caused by an atmospheric-pressure plasma jet, possibly resulting in cellular vulnerability to reactive species generated from the plasma as well as cytotoxicity to cancer cells. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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