1. Early detection of oral cancer - Is dielectrophoresis the answer?
- Author
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Broche LM, Bhadal N, Lewis MP, Porter S, Hughes MP, and Labeed FH
- Subjects
- Carcinoma, Squamous Cell pathology, Cell Line, Transformed, Cell Membrane physiology, Cell Size, Cytoplasm physiology, Early Diagnosis, Electric Conductivity, Electrophoresis methods, Humans, Keratinocytes physiology, Mouth Neoplasms pathology, Tumor Cells, Cultured, Carcinoma, Squamous Cell diagnosis, Mouth Neoplasms diagnosis
- Abstract
The early detection of oral squamous cell carcinoma by non-invasive methods has the potential to hasten diagnosis and thus lessen the morbidity associated with tumour therapy. Dielectrophoresis (DEP) can non-invasively determine electrophysiological parameters such as conductivity and permittivity of cellular cytoplasm and membrane. The present study demonstrates that DEP can be utilised to characterise H357 and UP cells and reveals that there are significant differences in these parameters between malignant and more normal epithelial cell lines. The present results suggest that DEP has potential for the early detection of cancerous from non-cancerous cells in a clinical setting.
- Published
- 2007
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