Low temperature plasma biomedicine: A tutorial review
Abstract
Gas discharge plasmas formed at atmospheric pressure and near room temperature have recently been shown to be potentially useful for surface and wound sterilization, antisepsis, bleeding cessation, wound healing, and cancer treatment, among other biomedical applications. This tutorial review summarizes the field, stressing the likely role of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species created in these plasmas as the biologically and therapeutically active agents. Reactive species, including radicals and non-radical compounds, are generated naturally within the body and are now understood to be essential for normal biological functions. These species are known to be active agents in existing therapies for wound healing, infection control, and cancer treatment. But they are also observed at elevated levels in persons with many diseases and are associated with aging. The physical and chemical complexity of plasma medical devices and their associated biochemical effects makes the development of safe, effective plasma medical devices and procedures a challenge, but encouragingly rapid progress has been reported around the world in the last several years.
- Authors:
- University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
- Publication Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 22303752
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal Name:
- Physics of Plasmas
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 21; Journal Issue: 8; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE; 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; NEOPLASMS; PLASMA; THERAPY; WOUNDS
Citation Formats
Graves, David B., E-mail: graves@berkeley.edu. Low temperature plasma biomedicine: A tutorial review. United States: N. p., 2014.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.4892534.
Graves, David B., E-mail: graves@berkeley.edu. Low temperature plasma biomedicine: A tutorial review. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4892534
Graves, David B., E-mail: graves@berkeley.edu. 2014.
"Low temperature plasma biomedicine: A tutorial review". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4892534.
@article{osti_22303752,
title = {Low temperature plasma biomedicine: A tutorial review},
author = {Graves, David B., E-mail: graves@berkeley.edu},
abstractNote = {Gas discharge plasmas formed at atmospheric pressure and near room temperature have recently been shown to be potentially useful for surface and wound sterilization, antisepsis, bleeding cessation, wound healing, and cancer treatment, among other biomedical applications. This tutorial review summarizes the field, stressing the likely role of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species created in these plasmas as the biologically and therapeutically active agents. Reactive species, including radicals and non-radical compounds, are generated naturally within the body and are now understood to be essential for normal biological functions. These species are known to be active agents in existing therapies for wound healing, infection control, and cancer treatment. But they are also observed at elevated levels in persons with many diseases and are associated with aging. The physical and chemical complexity of plasma medical devices and their associated biochemical effects makes the development of safe, effective plasma medical devices and procedures a challenge, but encouragingly rapid progress has been reported around the world in the last several years.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4892534},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22303752},
journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
issn = {1070-664X},
number = 8,
volume = 21,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Aug 15 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Fri Aug 15 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}