Aim: The purpose of this research is to study the effect of electrical pulse mediated tomato lipophilic extract (TLE) on human breast cancer MCF-7 and non-tumorigenic MCF-10A cells.
Materials And Methods: MCF-7 and MCF-10A cells were treated with 50 μg/mL TLE and eight 100 μs electric pulses of different electric field intensities (800, 1000, and 1200 V/cm), and the viability was studied using real time MT assay at 24 h of treatment. In addition, we studied cell viability of both the cells at 0 h using trypan blue assay and the ability to form colonies of both cells using colony forming unit (CFU) assay for all the treatments.
Hydrothermal and chemical aging tests on a 230 kV cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) insulation cable were carried out in the present study to evaluate the degradation and aging levels qualitatively. The samples were subjected to water aging at a temperature of 80 °C, and in an aqueous ionic solution of CuSO at room temperature. The diffusion coefficient results indicated that the ion migration was not at the same rate in the aging conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTriple negative breast cancer (TNBC) represents 15-20% of the over one million new breast cancer cases occurring each year. TNBC is an aggressive cancer phenotype, with low 5-year survival rates, high 3-year recurrence rates, and increased risk of metastasis. A lack of three commonly exploited hormone receptors renders TNBC resistant to endocrine therapies and lends to its critical absence of viable therapeutic targets.
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