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Yuanyuan Zhou1, Yan Zhang1, Jie Bao1,2
1Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Technology, Institute of Health & Medical Technology, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China.
Abstract:
Low temperature plasma (LTP) is a promising cancer therapy in clinical practice. In this study, dielectric barrier discharge plasma with helium gas was used to generate LTP. Significant increases in extracellular and intracellular reactive species were found in lung cancer cells (CALU-1 and SPC-A1) after LTP treatments. Cells viability and apoptosis assays demonstrated that LTP inhibited cells viability and induced cells death, respectively. Moreover, Western blotting revealed that the growth of CALU-1 cells was suppressed by LTP via the VEGF/VEGFR2/RAS/ERK axis for the first time. The results showed that LTP-induced ROS and RNS could inhibit the growth of lung cancer cells via VEGF/VEGFR2/RAS/ERK axis. These findings advance our understanding of the inhibitory mechanism of LTP on lung cancer and will facilitate its clinical application.
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