Cold atmospheric plasma, a novel promising anti-cancer treatment modality.
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...Due to stronger metabolism in cancer cells, the basal ROS level in cancer cells is thought to be higher than that in normal cells [147-150]....
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...Some specific anti-oxidant enzymes in cancer cell lines are indeed expressed less than corresponding normal cell lines [147]....
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...Take the catalase as an example, its expression in cancer cells are less than the corresponding normal cells in many studies [147, 157-160]....
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...Due to stronger metabolism in cancer cells, the basal ROS level in cancer cells is thought to be higher than that in normal cells [147-150]....
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...Actually, even the conclusion that the cancer cells have weaker anti-oxidant systems than normal cells are still disputable in cancer biology [148]....
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...The activated caspase-9 further activates caspase-3/7 [138, 140] and finally starts a series of apoptotic events [138]....
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...A very recent study on the anti-melanoma effect of DBD further confirmed that the CAP-treated melanoma tissue completely disappeared at the 22rd day after the treatment [90]....
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...It was observed that just using the gel/ H2O2 mixture could not generate a tumor killing efficacy as significant as that of DBD on the melanoma in a mouse model [90]....
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...In addition, ultraviolet and electrons in DBD have been proved to be negligible factors contributing to the intracellular DNA damage triggered by CAP [5]....
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...Based Oncotarget15978www.impactjournals.com/oncotarget these principles, two CAP devices, the plasma jet [6, 10, 11] and the dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) [12, 13], have been developed and widely used in plasma medicine [14-22]....
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...The CAP in DBD will not be generated if the sample is not Oncotarget15979www.impactjournals.com/oncotarget adequately close to the second electrode....
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