ABSTRACT

A reflection of the intense study of the effects of electromagnetic fields on living tissues that has taken place during the last decades, Advanced Electroporation Techniques in Biology and Medicine summarizes most recent experimental findings and theories related to permeabilization of biomembranes by pulsed electric fields. Edited by experts and

chapter 1|16 pages

Physical Chemical eory of Membrane Electroporation and Electrotransfer of Biogenic Agents

ByEberhard Neumann, Sergej Kakorin

chapter 2|32 pages

Bioelectric E ect of Intense Nanosecond Pulses

ByKarl H. Schoenbach

chapter 3|20 pages

Induced Transmembrane Voltage—eory, Modeling, and Experiments

ByTadej Kotnik, Gorazd Pucihar

chapter 4|26 pages

Electroporation: A Review of Basic Problems in eory and Experiment

ByMarko S. Markov

chapter 6|18 pages

Fluorescent Methods in Evaluation of Nanopore Conductivity and eir Computational Validation

ByMalgorzata Kotulska, Witold Dyrka, Przemyslaw Sadowski

chapter 7|20 pages

Electroporation of Lipid Membranes: Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations

ByMounir Tarek, Lucie Delemotte

chapter 8|16 pages

Nanoscale Restructuring of Lipid Bilayers in Nanosecond Electric Fields

ByP. „omas Vernier

chapter 9|18 pages

Nanopores: A Distinct Transmembrane Passageway in Electroporated Cells

ByAndrei G. Pakhomov and Olga N. Pakhomova

chapter 10|18 pages

Model of Cell Membrane Electroporation and Transmembrane Molecular Transport

ByDamijan Miklavcˇicˇ, Leila Towhidi

chapter 12|16 pages

The Pulse Intensity-Duration Dependency for Cell Membrane Electroporation

ByDamijan Miklavcˇicˇ , Gorazd Pucihar, Alenka Macˇek Lebar, Jasna Krmelj, and Leila Towhidi

chapter 13|26 pages

Drug-Free, Solid Tumor Ablation by Electroporating Pulses: Mechanisms That Couple to Necrotic and Apoptotic Cell Death Pathways

ByAxel T. Esser, Kyle C. Smith, „iruvallur R. Gowrishankar, and James C. Weaver

chapter 14|18 pages

Gene Electrotransfer: From Basic Processes to Preclinical Applications

ByJean-Michel Escore, Aurélie Paganin-Gioanni, Elisabeth Bellard, Muriel Golzio, Marie-Pierre Rols, and Justin Teissié

chapter 17|12 pages

Generation of Ultrashort Pulses

ByJuergen F. Kolb

chapter 18|18 pages

Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Field Delivery to Biological Samples: Di¤culties and Potential Solutions

ByAude Silve, Julien Villemejane, Vanessa Joubert, Antoni Ivorra, Lluis M. Mir

chapter 19|14 pages

Translation of Electroporation-Mediated DNA Delivery to the Clinic

ByLoree C. Heller, Richard Heller

chapter 20|16 pages

Clinical Electrochemotherapy: e Italian Experience

ByCarlo Ricardo Rossi, Luca Giovanni Campana

chapter 23|10 pages

Combined Electrical Field and Ultrasound: A Nondrug-Based Method for Tumor Ablation

ByPatrick F. Forde, Ciara Twomey, Gerald C. O’ Sullivan, and Declan M. Soden

chapter 24|12 pages

Combined Modality Therapy: Electrochemotherapy with Tumor Irradiation

ByGregor Sersa, Simona Kranjc, Maja Cemazar

chapter 25|10 pages

Irreversible Electroporation in Medicine

ByBoris Rubinsky

chapter 26|28 pages

Food and Biomaterials Processing Assisted by Electroporation

ByNikolai Lebovka, Eugene Vorobiev

chapter 27|12 pages

In Vivo Electroporation: An Important Injury Mechanism in Electrical Shock Trauma

ByIskandar Barakat, Jill Gallaher, Hongfeng Chen, Raphael C. Lee