Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
5-16-2012
Journal
New Journal of Physics
Volume
Volume 14
Keywords
Instrumentation and Measurement; Biological Physics; Plasma Physics
Abstract
Current breakthrough research on cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) demonstrates that CAP has great potential in various areas, including medicine and biology, thus providing a new tool for living tissue treatment. In this paper, we explore potential mechanisms by which CAP alters cell migration and influences cell adhesion. We focus on the study of CAP interaction with fibroblasts and corneal epithelial cells. The data show that fibroblasts and corneal epithelial cells have different thresholds (treatment times) required to achieve maximum inhibition of cell migration. Both cell types reduced their migration rates by ~30–40% after CAP compared to control cells. Also, the impact of CAP treatment on cell migration and persistence of fibroblasts after integrin activation by MnCl2, serum starvation or replating cells onto surfaces coated with integrin ligands is assessed; the results show that activation by MnCl2 or starvation attenuates cells' responses to plasma. Studies carried out to assess the impact of CAP treatment on the activation state of β1 integrin and focal adhesion size by using immunofluorescence show that fibroblasts have more active β1 integrin on their surface and large focal adhesions after CAP treatment. Based on these data, a thermodynamic model is presented to explain how CAP leads to integrin activation and focal adhesion assembly.
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APA Citation
Volotskova, O., Stepp, M. A., & Keidar, M. (2012). Integrin activation by a cold atmospheric plasma jet. New Journal of Physics, 14.
Peer Reviewed
1
Open Access
1
Comments
Reproduced with permission of IOP Publishing New Journal of Physics.