Determination of cellular injury and death thresholds following exposure to high voltage 10ns electrical pulses

Bennett L. Ibey; Caleb C. Roth; Joshua A Bernhard; Andrei G. Pakhomov; Gerald J. Wilmink; Olga Pakhomova

doi:10.1117/12.875826

22 February 2011 Determination of cellular injury and death thresholds following exposure to high voltage 10ns electrical pulses

Bennett L. Ibey, Caleb C. Roth, Joshua A Bernhard, Andrei G. Pakhomov, Gerald J. Wilmink, Olga Pakhomova

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Proceedings Volume 7901, Energy-based Treatment of Tissue and Assessment VI; 79010G (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.875826
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2011, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Intense, nanosecond-duration electric pulses (nsEP) have been introduced as a novel modality to alter cellular function, with a mechanism of action qualitatively different from micro- and millisecond duration pulses used in electroporation. In this study, we determined the thresholds for plasma membrane injury (within 15 minutes) and cell death (at 24 hours) for 4 different cell types (CHO-K1, HeLa, Jurkat and U937). Plasma membrane injury was measured by flow cytometry using two fluorescent dyes, namely Annexin V-FITC, which binds to phosphatidylserine (PS) upon its externalization (subtle membrane injury), and propidium iodide (PI), which is typically impermeable to the cell, but enters when large pores are formed in the plasma membrane. In all cell types, 10-ns pulses caused phosphatidylserine (PS) externalization at low doses (<150kV/cm and 100 pulses for each cell type) and no PI uptake. Jurkat and U937 cell lines showed substantial cell death without uptake of PI (15 minutes post exposure) suggesting either delayed permeabilization due to swelling, or damage to intracellular components. In CHO-K1 and HeLa cell lines, PI uptake occurred at low doses relative to that necessary to cause cell death suggesting a necrotic death similar to longer pulse exposures. These findings suggest that nanosecond pulses may be beneficial in applications that require selective elimination of specific cell types.

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Bennett L. Ibey, Caleb C. Roth, Joshua A Bernhard, Andrei G. Pakhomov, Gerald J. Wilmink, and Olga Pakhomova "Determination of cellular injury and death thresholds following exposure to high voltage 10ns electrical pulses", Proc. SPIE 7901, Energy-based Treatment of Tissue and Assessment VI, 79010G (22 February 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.875826

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