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http://dx.doi.org/10.5352/JLS.2013.23.6.838

Plasma Medicine: How can Nonthermal Atmospheric Plasma be Applied to Medicine?  

Park, Sang Rye (Department of Oral Anatomy, School of Dentistry, Pusan National University)
Hong, Jin Woo (Department of Korean Internal Medicine, School of Korean Medicine, Pusan National University)
Lee, Hae June (Department of Electronics Engineering, Pusan National University)
Kim, Gyoo Cheon (Department of Oral Anatomy, School of Dentistry, Pusan National University)
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Journal of Life Science / v.23, no.6, 2013 , pp. 838-846 More about this Journal
Abstract
As a forth state of material, plasma is ionized gas, which generates characteristically various reactive species. After late of $20^{th}$ century, plasma has been widely used in industry. After nonthermal atmospheric plasma was developed, it has been applied to biomedical fields. Nonthermal atmospheric plasma does not give thermal damages to human tissues, and it shows the high efficiency in cancer treatment, sterilization, tooth bleaching, coagulation, and wound healing. Because the application of plasma to biomedicine has been expanded through interdisciplinary studies, its value of high medical technology is increasing now. Since nonthermal atmospheric plasma was first applied to the mammalian cells and microorganisms, many valuable studies has been performed for about last 10 years, so that now the new research area called 'plasma medicine' has been formed. This article introduces the recent data resulted from plasma medicine and helps to understand the plasma medicine.
Keywords
Nonthermal atmospheric plasma; plasma medicine; reactive species;
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