Objective: Glioblastoma (GBM) is the deadliest type of cancer and current clinical treatments for malignant gliomas have many side effects. The article discusses the possibility that nanosecond pulsed electric fields (nsPEFs) can be focused on tumors for local killing. As well as the possibility of utilizing the CANCAN (canceled bipolar) effect to reduce neurostimulation and thus overcome side effects such as seizures and edema.
Method: In this paper, we use cell ablation and viability experiments to investigated the BPC (Bipolar cancellation) effect of U87-MG cells under the action of nsPEFs of various pulse numbers and the electric field amplitude.
Results: The results showed that maximum BPC efficiency (163.9%) was obtained with nsPEFs of 15 kV/cm and 15 pulses, and unipolar nsPEFs of 20 kV/cm and 15 pulses were able to achieve a killing effect of 90% with cell suspension, then this electric field is used as a reference for the ablation experiments.
Conclusion: Cell ablation experiments found that the electric field threshold of 3D (3D-like tissue) cell ablation (5.805 ± 1.455 kV/cm) is lower than that of monolayer wall cells (8.95 ± 0.75 kV/cm), which can cause a larger ablation area under the same pulsed electric field conditions. In addition, the BPC effect was more significant for 3D cells, but the trends of ablation area and BPC efficiency were similar when modulating the number of pulses.
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