Glioblastoma Cell Lines Display Different Sensitivities to Plasma-Activated Medium

Hiromasa Tanaka, Masaaki Mizuno, Kenji Ishikawa, Keigo Takeda, Hiroshi Hashizume, Kae Nakamura, Fumi Utsumi, Hiroaki Kajiyama, Yasumasa Okazaki, Shinya Toyokuni, Shinichi Akiyama, Shoichi Maruyama, Fumitaka Kikkawa, Masaru Hori

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Abstract

Plasma-activated medium (PAM) is a novel chemotherapy that induces reactive oxygen species (ROS) and cell death in a wide range of cancer cell types, suggesting that PAM may be a promising therapeutic option for cancer treatment. However, dose response experiments suggest that PAM sensitivity is cell line specific. We examined the sensitivities of three glioblastoma cell lines to PAM, and found a wide variation in cell killing that was linked to differences in PAM induced ROS and apoptosis. These results indicate that the PAM sensitivity of glioblastoma cells, and potentially cancer cells more generally, is heterogeneous and likely to be dependent on the regulation of apoptosis and antioxidant pathways in target cells.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)99-102
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences
Volume2
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Instrumentation
  • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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