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Exp Dermatol ; 23(2): 135-7, 2014 Feb.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24330263

ABSTRACT

This nanoelectroablation therapy effectively treats subdermal murine allograft tumors, autochthonous basal cell carcinoma (BCC) tumors in Ptch1+/-K14-Cre-ER p53 fl/fl mice, and UV-induced melanomas in C57/BL6 HGF/SF mice. Here, we described the first human trial of this modality. We treated 10 BCCs on three subjects with 100-1000 electric pulses 100 ns in duration, 30 kV/cm in amplitude, applied at 2 pulses per second. Seven of the 10 treated lesions were completely free of basaloid cells when biopsied and two partially regressed. Two of the 7 exhibited seborrheic keratosis in the absence of basaloid cells. One of the 10 treated lesions recurred by week 10 and histologically had the appearance of a squamous cell carcinoma. No scars were visible at the healed sites of any of the successfully ablated lesions. One hundred pulses were sufficient for complete ablation of BCCs with a single, 1-min nanoelectroablation treatment.


Subject(s)
Carcinoma, Basal Cell/surgery , Electrosurgery/methods , Microsurgery/methods , Skin Neoplasms/surgery , Biopsy , Carcinoma, Basal Cell/pathology , Carcinoma, Squamous Cell/pathology , Carcinoma, Squamous Cell/surgery , Female , Follow-Up Studies , Humans , Keratinocytes/pathology , Keratosis, Seborrheic/pathology , Male , Melanosis/pathology , Middle Aged , Skin Neoplasms/pathology
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Biochem Biophys Res Commun ; 435(4): 580-5, 2013 Jun 14.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23680664

ABSTRACT

The cellular response to 100 ns pulsed electric fields (nsPEF) exposure includes the formation of transient nanopores in the plasma membrane and organelle membranes, an immediate increase in intracellular Ca(2+), an increase in reactive oxygen species (ROS), DNA fragmentation and caspase activation. 100 ns, 30 kV/cm nsPEF stimulates an increase in ROS proportional to the pulse number. This increase is inhibited by the anti-oxidant, Trolox, as well as the presence of Ca(2+) chelators in the intracellular and extracellular media. This suggests that the nsPEF-triggered Ca(2+) increase is required for ROS generation.


Subject(s)
Calcium/metabolism , Electric Stimulation/methods , Pancreatic Neoplasms/metabolism , Reactive Oxygen Species/metabolism , Cell Line, Tumor , Humans
3.
Int J Cancer ; 132(8): 1933-9, 2013 Apr 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23001643

ABSTRACT

We have identified an effective nanoelectroablation therapy for treating pancreatic carcinoma in a murine xenograft model. This therapy initiates apoptosis in a nonthermal manner by applying low energy electric pulses 100 ns long and 30 kV/cm in amplitude to the tumor. We first identified the minimum pulse number required for complete ablation by treating 30 tumors. We found that the minimum number of pulses required to ablate the tumor with a single treatment is between 250 and 500 pulses. We settled on a single application of either 500 or 1,000 pulses to treat pancreatic carcinomas in 19 NIH-III mice. Seventeen of the 19 treated tumors exhibited complete regression without recurrence. Three mice died of unknown causes within 3 months after treatment but 16 lived for 270-302 days at which time we sacrificed them for histological analysis. In the 17 untreated controls, the tumor grew so large that we had to sacrifice all of them within 4 months.


Subject(s)
Electricity , Pancreatic Neoplasms/therapy , Transplantation, Heterologous , Animals , Apoptosis , Female , Humans , Mice , Mice, Nude , Pancreatic Neoplasms/pathology , Recurrence
4.
Pigment Cell Melanoma Res ; 25(5): 618-29, 2012 Sep.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22686288

ABSTRACT

Non-thermal nanoelectroablation therapy completely ablates UV-induced murine melanomas. C57/BL6-HGF/SF transgenic mice were exposed to UV radiation as pups and began to develop visible melanomas 5-6 months later. We have treated 27 of these melanomas in 14 mice with nanosecond pulsed electric field (nsPEF) therapy delivering 2000 electric pulses each 100 ns long and 30 kV/cm at a rate of 5-7 pulses per second. All nanoelectroablated melanoma tumors began to shrink within a day after treatment and gradually disappeared over a period of 12-29 days. Pyknosis of nuclei was evident within 1 h of nsPEF treatment, and DNA fragmentation as detected by TUNEL staining was evident by 6 h after nsPEF treatment. In a melanoma allograft system, nsPEF treatment was superior to tumor excision at accelerating secondary tumor rejection in immune-competent mice, suggesting enhanced stimulation of a protective immune response by nsPEF-treated melanomas. This is supported by the presence of CD4(+) -T cells within treated tumors as well as within untreated tumors located in mice with other melanomas that had been treated with nanoelectroablation at least 19 days earlier.


Subject(s)
Ablation Techniques/methods , Electric Stimulation Therapy/methods , Immunity/immunology , Melanoma/immunology , Melanoma/therapy , Nanomedicine/methods , Skin Neoplasms/therapy , Animals , Apoptosis/radiation effects , CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology , In Situ Nick-End Labeling , Melanoma/pathology , Melanoma/physiopathology , Melanoma, Experimental/immunology , Melanoma, Experimental/pathology , Melanoma, Experimental/physiopathology , Melanoma, Experimental/therapy , Mice , Mice, Inbred C57BL , Reproducibility of Results , Skin Neoplasms/immunology , Skin Neoplasms/pathology , Skin Neoplasms/physiopathology , Skin Pigmentation/radiation effects , Temperature , Ultraviolet Rays
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Wound Repair Regen ; 19(5): 645-55, 2011.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22092802

ABSTRACT

Due to the transepidermal potential of 15-50 mV, inside positive, an injury current is driven out of all human skin wounds. The flow of this current generates a lateral electric field within the epidermis that is more negative at the wound edge than at regions more lateral from the wound edge. Electric fields in this region could be as large as 40 mV/mm, and electric fields of this magnitude have been shown to stimulate human keratinocyte migration toward the wounded region. After flowing out of the wound, the current returns through the space between the epidermis and stratum corneum, generating a lateral field above the epidermis in the opposite direction. Here, we report the results from the first clinical trial designed to measure this lateral electric field adjacent to human skin wounds noninvasively. Using a new instrument, the Dermacorder®, we found that the mean lateral electric field in the space between the epidermis and stratum corneum adjacent to a lancet wound in 18-25-year-olds is 107-148 mV/mm, 48% larger on average than that in 65-80-year-olds. We also conducted extensive measurements of the lateral electric field adjacent to mouse wounds as they healed and compared this field with histological sections through the wound to determine the correlation between the electric field and the rate of epithelial wound closure. Immediately after wounding, the average lateral electric field was 122 ± 9 mV/mm. When the wound is filled in with a thick, disorganized epidermal layer, the mean field falls to 79 ± 4 mV/mm. Once this epidermis forms a compact structure with only three cell layers, the mean field is 59 ± 5 mV/mm. Thus, the peak-to-peak spatial variation in surface potential is largest in fresh wounds and slowly declines as the wound closes. The rate of wound healing is slightly greater when wounds are kept moist as expected, but we could find no correlation between the amplitude of the electric field and the rate of wound healing.


Subject(s)
Aging/physiology , Electrophysiological Phenomena , Skin Physiological Phenomena , Skin/injuries , Wound Healing/physiology , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Animals , Epidermis/physiology , Female , Humans , Male , Mice , Mice, Hairless , Young Adult
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