Development of electrophysical installations for medical and industrial applications at the Efremov institute

Floating Electrode Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma in Air Promoting Apoptotic Behavior in Melanoma Skin Cancer Cell Lines

“…Plasmas are widely used in textile [3][4][5] and lighting industries [6][7][8], electronics [8][9][10][11], and in many other applications (see [8][9][10][11][12], for example). It is no surprise that biology and medicine also employ the ''fourth state of matter'' in materials processing [13][14][15], sterilization [10,[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23], improvement of bio-compatibility [13,24,25], tissue engineering [26][27][28], to increase adhesion and wettability and for other surface modifications [29][30][31][32][33][34]. Medical applications focused on plasma treatment of living tissue, which are of growing interest these days, require treatments at atmospheric pressure since cells and tissues are not vacuum-compatible [16,35].…”