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A highly effective turn-on tanshinone IIA-based fluorescent probe for rapid and sensitive detection of ClO− and its application in environmental analysis and bioimaging. J Photochem Photobiol A Chem 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2022.114533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Wu M, Rubin AE, Dai T, Schloss R, Usta OB, Golberg A, Yarmush M. High-Voltage, Pulsed Electric Fields Eliminate Pseudomonas aeruginosa Stable Infection in a Mouse Burn Model. Adv Wound Care (New Rochelle) 2021; 10:477-489. [PMID: 33066719 PMCID: PMC8260897 DOI: 10.1089/wound.2019.1147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2019] [Accepted: 10/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Objective: The incidence of severe infectious complications after burn injury increases mortality by 40%. However, traditional approaches for managing burn infections are not always effective. High-voltage, pulsed electric field (PEF) treatment shortly after a burn injury has demonstrated an antimicrobial effect in vivo; however, the working parameters and long-term effects of PEF treatment have not yet been investigated. Approach: Nine sets of PEF parameters were investigated to optimize the applied voltage, pulse duration, and frequency or pulse repetition for disinfection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in a stable mouse burn wound model. The bacterial load after PEF administration was monitored for 3 days through bioluminescence imaging. Histological assessments and inflammation response analyses were performed at 1 and 24 h after the therapy. Results: Among all tested PEF parameters, the best disinfection efficacy of P. aeruginosa infection was achieved with a combination of 500 V, 100 μs, and 200 pulses delivered at 3 Hz through two plate electrodes positioned 1 mm apart for up to 3 days after the injury. Histological examinations revealed fewer inflammatory signs in PEF-treated wounds compared with untreated infected burns. Moreover, the expression levels of multiple inflammatory-related cytokines (interleukin [IL]-1α/β, IL-6, IL-10, leukemia inhibitory factor [LIF], and tumor necrosis factor-alpha [TNF-α]), chemokines (macrophage inflammatory protein [MIP]-1α/β and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 [MCP-1]), and inflammation-related factors (vascular endothelial growth factor [VEGF], macrophage colony-stimulating factor [M-CSF], and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor [G-CSF]) were significantly decreased in the infected burn wound after PEF treatment. Innovation: We showed that PEF treatment on infected wounds reduces the P. aeruginosa load and modulates inflammatory responses. Conclusion: The data presented in this study suggest that PEF treatment is a potent candidate for antimicrobial therapy for P. aeruginosa burn infections.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mengjie Wu
- Department of Orthodontics, The Affiliated Stomatology Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
- Center of Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Porter School of Environment and Earth Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
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- Center of Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Porter School of Environment and Earth Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Center of Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
- Shriners Burn Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) is noninvasive, painless, and riskless on detection for gastrointestinal disease. It attracts increasing attention. Wireless power transfer (WPT) technology is utilized to supply power for WCE. Receiving coil (RC) of WPT is capsulated into WCE. Its position and direction change all through gastrointestinal tract. Transmitting coil (TC) is worn by the patient. So the mutual inductance varies all the time. It should be studied to ensure sufficient receiving power. However, existing analytical methods do not reach satisfactory accuracy. They can only solve simple cases with positional misalignment. Numerical simulation models are time-consuming. Furthermore, an entirely new simulation must be repeated when any change in alignment occurs. Thus, based on geometry and misalignment of RC and TC, a model for mutual inductance is proposed. Compared with analytical methods, it is applicable to not only circular and rectangular RC, but also the elliptic, with directional misalignment. It costs below 0.1% of computational time of the simulation for the same accuracy. Moreover, any change in misalignment is easily handled by a simple change of parameter in the model. It reaches a tradeoff between computational accuracy and time. Receiving power is evaluated rapidly and accurately with proposed model.
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- Shuai Kuang
- Department of Precise Medical Engineering and Intelligent Electronic Microsystems, School of Electronics Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
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- Department of Precise Medical Engineering and Intelligent Electronic Microsystems, School of Electronics Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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IGBT-Based Pulsed Electric Fields Generator for Disinfection: Design and In Vitro Studies on Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Ann Biomed Eng 2019; 47:1314-1325. [PMID: 30726513 DOI: 10.1007/s10439-019-02225-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2018] [Accepted: 01/30/2019] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Irreversible electroporation of cell membrane with pulsed electric fields is an emerging physical method for disinfection that aims to reduce the doses and volumes of used antibiotics for wound healing. Here we report on the design of the IGBT-based pulsed electric field generator that enabled eradication of multidrug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 on the gel. Using a concentric electric configuration we determined that the lower threshold of the electric field required to kill P. aeruginosa PAO1 was 89.28 ± 12.89 V mm-1, when 200 square pulses of 300 µs duration are delivered at 3 Hz. These parameters disinfected 38.14 ± 0.79 mm2 area around the single needle electrode. This study provides a step towards the design of equipment required for multidrug-resistant bacteria disinfection in patients with pulsed electric fields.
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