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  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,177 Views
20 Pages

20 June 2020

Electroporation is a pulsed electric field triggered phenomenon of cell permeabilization, which is extensively used in biomedical and biotechnological context. There is a growing scientific demand for high-voltage and/or high-frequency pulse generato...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,238 Views
38 Pages

21 November 2025

Intracellular targeting is the missing dimension in contemporary oncology, and nanosecond pulsed electric fields (nsPEFs) uniquely aim to deliver it. By charging membranes on sub-microsecond timescales, nsPEF bypasses plasma-membrane shielding to por...

  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
7,967 Views
29 Pages

Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Field (nsPEF): Opening the Biotechnological Pandora’s Box

  • Alvaro R. Ruiz-Fernández,
  • Leonardo Campos,
  • Sebastian E. Gutierrez-Maldonado,
  • Gonzalo Núñez,
  • Felipe Villanelo and
  • Tomas Perez-Acle

Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Field (nsPEF) is an electrostimulation technique first developed in 1995; nsPEF requires the delivery of a series of pulses of high electric fields in the order of nanoseconds into biological tissues or cells. They primary...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,833 Views
19 Pages

Effects of Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Field (nsPEF) on a Multicellular Spheroid Tumor Model: Influence of Pulse Duration, Pulse Repetition Rate, Absorbed Energy, and Temperature

  • Rosa Orlacchio,
  • Jelena Kolosnjaj-Tabi,
  • Nicolas Mattei,
  • Philippe Lévêque,
  • Marie Pierre Rols,
  • Delia Arnaud-Cormos and
  • Muriel Golzio

8 October 2023

Cellular response upon nsPEF exposure depends on different parameters, such as pulse number and duration, the intensity of the electric field, pulse repetition rate (PRR), pulsing buffer composition, absorbed energy, and local temperature increase. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,847 Views
45 Pages

Cellular Processes Involved in Jurkat Cells Exposed to Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Field

  • Huijuan Li,
  • Shibin Liu,
  • Xue Yang,
  • Yongqian Du,
  • Jiezhang Luo,
  • Jie Tan and
  • Yulong Sun

21 November 2019

Recently, nanosecond pulsed electric field (nsPEF) has been considered as a new tool for tumor therapy, but its molecular mechanism of function remains to be fully elucidated. Here, we explored the cellular processes of Jurkat cells exposed to nanose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,086 Views
10 Pages

New Architecture of Solid-State High-Voltage Pulse Generators

  • Yahia Achour,
  • Jacek Starzyński and
  • Kazimierz Jakubiuk

1 July 2022

The application of the nanosecond pulsed electric field (nsPEF) for biomedical treatments has gained more interest in recent decades due to the development of pulsed power technologies which provides the ability to control the electric field dose app...

  • Review
  • Open Access
154 Citations
14,504 Views
27 Pages

6 March 2013

Pulse power technology using nanosecond pulsed electric fields (nsPEFs) offers a new stimulus to modulate cell functions or induce cell death for cancer cell ablation. New data and a literature review demonstrate fundamental and basic cellular mechan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,059 Views
15 Pages

Protein-Mediated Electroporation in a Cardiac Voltage-Sensing Domain Due to an nsPEF Stimulus

  • Alvaro R. Ruiz-Fernández,
  • Leonardo Campos,
  • Felipe Villanelo,
  • Jose Antonio Garate and
  • Tomas Perez-Acle

This study takes a step in understanding the physiological implications of the nanosecond pulsed electric field (nsPEF) by integrating molecular dynamics simulations and machine learning techniques. nsPEF, a state-of-the-art technology, uses high-vol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,922 Views
21 Pages

Exploring the Conformational Changes Induced by Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Fields on the Voltage Sensing Domain of a Ca2+ Channel

  • Alvaro R. Ruiz-Fernández,
  • Leonardo Campos,
  • Felipe Villanelo,
  • Sebastian E. Gutiérrez-Maldonado and
  • Tomas Perez-Acle

Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Field (nsPEF or Nano Pulsed Stimulation, NPS) is a technology that delivers a series of pulses of high-voltage electric fields during a short period of time, in the order of nanoseconds. The main consequence of nsPEF upon c...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,784 Views
15 Pages

The combination of nanosecond Pulsed Electric Field (nsPEF) with pharmaceuticals is a pioneering therapeutic method capable of enhancing drug uptake efficacy in cells. Utilizing nsPEFs configured at 400 pulses, an electric field strength of 15 kV/cm,...

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  • Open Access
467 Views
15 Pages

24 November 2025

Nanosecond pulsed electric fields (nsPEFs) are ultrashort, high-intensity electrical pulses that have unique biological actions, including the formation of membrane nanopores and the efficient induction of cell death. nsPEFs are currently regarded as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,113 Views
18 Pages

Peculiarities of Neurostimulation by Intense Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Fields: How to Avoid Firing in Peripheral Nerve Fibers

  • Vitalii Kim,
  • Emily Gudvangen,
  • Oleg Kondratiev,
  • Luis Redondo,
  • Shu Xiao and
  • Andrei G. Pakhomov

Intense pulsed electric fields (PEF) are a novel modality for the efficient and targeted ablation of tumors by electroporation. The major adverse side effects of PEF therapies are strong involuntary muscle contractions and pain. Nanosecond-range PEF...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,577 Views
13 Pages

Printed Flexible Microelectrode for Application of Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Fields on Cells

  • Martin Schubert,
  • Jens Rasche,
  • Mika-Matti Laurila,
  • Tiina Vuorinen,
  • Matti Mäntysalo and
  • Karlheinz Bock

24 August 2019

Medical treatment is increasingly benefiting from biomedical microsystems, especially the trending telemedical application. A promising modality for tumor therapy showed the application of nanosecond pulsed electric fields (nsPEF) on cells to achieve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,110 Views
13 Pages

Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Field Induces an Antitumor Effect in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer via CXCL9 Axis Dependence in Mice

  • Zhentian Xu,
  • Caixu Pan,
  • Luyan Chen,
  • Junjie Qian,
  • Xinhua Chen,
  • Lin Zhou and
  • Shusen Zheng

30 March 2023

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a refractory tumor, and therapeutic options are very limited. Local ablation has been applied recently. Chemokines play a critical role in the recruitment of immune cells into ablative tumors. Nanosecond pulsed...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
11,115 Views
40 Pages

Bioelectric Applications for Treatment of Melanoma

  • Stephen J. Beebe,
  • Karl H. Schoenbach and
  • Richard Heller

27 September 2010

Two new cancer therapies apply bioelectric principles. These methods target tumor structures locally and function by applying millisecond electric fields to deliver plasmid DNA encoding cytokines using electrogene transfer (EGT) or by applying rapid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,583 Views
16 Pages

Pulsed Electric Field Ablation of Esophageal Malignancies and Mitigating Damage to Smooth Muscle: An In Vitro Study

  • Emily Gudvangen,
  • Uma Mangalanathan,
  • Iurii Semenov,
  • Allen S. Kiester,
  • Mark A. Keppler,
  • Bennett L. Ibey,
  • Joel N. Bixler and
  • Andrei G. Pakhomov

2 February 2023

Cancer ablation therapies aim to be efficient while minimizing damage to healthy tissues. Nanosecond pulsed electric field (nsPEF) is a promising ablation modality because of its selectivity against certain cell types and reduced neuromuscular effect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,736 Views
14 Pages

As the initial antibody technology, the preparation of hybridoma cells has been widely used in discovering antibody drugs and is still in use. Various antibody drugs obtained through this technology have been approved for treating human diseases. How...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,734 Views
16 Pages

Nanosecond PEF Induces Oxidative Stress and Apoptosis via Proteasomal Activity Inhibition in Gastric Adenocarcinoma Cells with Drug Resistance

  • Julita Kulbacka,
  • Nina Rembiałkowska,
  • Anna Szewczyk,
  • Joanna Rossowska,
  • Małgorzata Drąg-Zalesińska,
  • Marek Kulbacki and
  • Anna Choromańska

26 October 2022

Nanosecond (ns) pulsed electric field (PEF) is a technology in which the application of ultra-short electrical pulses can be used to disrupt the barrier function of cell plasma and internal membranes. Disruptions of the membrane integrity cause a sub...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,992 Views
18 Pages

Effects of Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Field on Immune Checkpoint Receptors in Melanoma Cells

  • Natalia Sauer,
  • Wojciech Szlasa,
  • Anna Szewczyk,
  • Vitalij Novickij,
  • Jolanta Saczko,
  • Dagmara Baczyńska,
  • Małgorzata Daczewska and
  • Julita Kulbacka

27 September 2023

Checkpoint molecules such as PD-1, LAG-3, and TIM-3 are currently under extensive investigation for their roles in the attenuation of the immune response in cancer. Various methods have been applied to overcome the challenges in this field. This stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
6,477 Views
18 Pages

Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Fields Induce Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Accompanied by Immunogenic Cell Death in Murine Models of Lymphoma and Colorectal Cancer

  • Alessandra Rossi,
  • Olga N. Pakhomova,
  • Peter A. Mollica,
  • Maura Casciola,
  • Uma Mangalanathan,
  • Andrei G. Pakhomov and
  • Claudia Muratori

17 December 2019

Depending on the initiating stimulus, cancer cell death can be immunogenic or non-immunogenic. Inducers of immunogenic cell death (ICD) rely on endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress for the trafficking of danger signals such as calreticulin (CRT) and ATP...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,668 Views
17 Pages

Probing Nanoelectroporation and Resealing of the Cell Membrane by the Entry of Ca2+ and Ba2+ Ions

  • Wenfei Bo,
  • Mantas Silkunas,
  • Uma Mangalanathan,
  • Vitalij Novickij,
  • Maura Casciola,
  • Iurii Semenov,
  • Shu Xiao,
  • Olga N. Pakhomova and
  • Andrei G. Pakhomov

The principal bioeffect of the nanosecond pulsed electric field (nsPEF) is a lasting cell membrane permeabilization, which is often attributed to the formation of nanometer-sized pores. Such pores may be too small for detection by the uptake of fluor...

  • Review
  • Open Access
61 Citations
6,801 Views
35 Pages

30 April 2020

Pulsed electric fields (PEFs) have become clinically important through the success of Irreversible Electroporation (IRE), Electrochemotherapy (ECT), and nanosecond PEFs (nsPEFs) for the treatment of tumors. PEFs increase the permeability of cell memb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,968 Views
16 Pages

Transfection by Electroporation of Cancer and Primary Cells Using Nanosecond and Microsecond Electric Fields

  • Eivina Radzevičiūtė,
  • Veronika Malyško-Ptašinskė,
  • Jurij Novickij,
  • Vitalij Novickij and
  • Irutė Girkontaitė

Gene transfer into primary immune cells as well as into cell lines is essential for scientific and therapeutical applications. One of the methods used for gene transfer is electroporation (EP). EP is a method where a pulsed electric field (PEF) cause...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,174 Views
14 Pages

12 June 2021

The paper introduces a new design of Marx generator based on modular stages using Silicon Carbide MOSFETs (SiC-MOSFET) aimed to be used in biomedical applications. In this process, living cells are treated with intense nanosecond Pulsed Electrical Fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,086 Views
18 Pages

Ultra-Low Intensity Post-Pulse Affects Cellular Responses Caused by Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Fields

  • Kamal Asadipour,
  • Carol Zhou,
  • Vincent Yi,
  • Stephen J. Beebe and
  • Shu Xiao

High-intensity nanosecond pulse electric fields (nsPEF) can preferentially induce various effects, most notably regulated cell death and tumor elimination. These effects have almost exclusively been shown to be associated with nsPEF waveforms defined...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,900 Views
12 Pages

Electrochemotherapy Using Doxorubicin and Nanosecond Electric Field Pulses: A Pilot in Vivo Study

  • Vitalij Novickij,
  • Veronika Malyško,
  • Augustinas Želvys,
  • Austėja Balevičiūtė,
  • Auksė Zinkevičienė,
  • Jurij Novickij and
  • Irutė Girkontaitė

9 October 2020

Pulsed electric field (PEF) is frequently used for intertumoral drug delivery resulting in a well-known anticancer treatment—electrochemotherapy. However, electrochemotherapy is associated with microsecond range of electrical pulses, while nano...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Views
14 Pages

Experimental Evaluation of Pulse Width Effects Under Equal-Dose Pulsed Electric Field Treatment on A375 Cells

  • Hongyu Kou,
  • Feiyu Wu,
  • Kai Chen,
  • Shupeng Wang,
  • Runze Liang and
  • Chenguo Yao

21 January 2026

Pulsed electric fields (PEFs) are widely recognized as a non-thermal, selective physical therapy with wide clinical application in tumor ablation. The pulse width determines how electrical energy is distributed across plasma membrane to intracellular...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,360 Views
17 Pages

The Impact of Extracellular Ca2+ and Nanosecond Electric Pulses on Sensitive and Drug-Resistant Human Breast and Colon Cancer Cells

  • Julita Kulbacka,
  • Nina Rembiałkowska,
  • Anna Szewczyk,
  • Helena Moreira,
  • Anna Szyjka,
  • Irutė Girkontaitė,
  • Kamil P. Grela and
  • Vitalij Novickij

28 June 2021

(1) Background: Calcium electroporation (CaEP) is based on the application of electrical pulses to permeabilize cells (electroporation) and allow cytotoxic doses of calcium to enter the cell. (2) Methods: In this work, we have used doxorubicin-resist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,297 Views
11 Pages

Application of Gold Nanoparticles for Improvement of Electroporation-Assisted Drug Delivery and Bleomycin Electrochemotherapy

  • Barbora Lekešytė,
  • Eglė Mickevičiūtė,
  • Paulina Malakauskaitė,
  • Anna Szewczyk,
  • Eivina Radzevičiūtė-Valčiukė,
  • Veronika Malyško-Ptašinskė,
  • Augustinas Želvys,
  • Natalija German,
  • Almira Ramanavičienė and
  • Vitalij Novickij
  • + 2 authors

30 September 2024

Background/Objectives: Electrochemotherapy (ECT) is a safe and efficient method of targeted drug delivery using pulsed electric fields (PEF), one that is based on the phenomenon of electroporation. However, the problems of electric field homogeneity...