1st World Congress on Electroporation and Pulsed Electric Fields in Biology, Medicine and Food & Environmental Technologies (WC 2015) Portorož, Slovenia, September 6-10, 2015.

This volume presents the proceedings of the 1st World Congress on Electroporation and Pulsed Electric Fields in Biology, Medicine and Food & Environmental Technologies (WC2015). The congress took place in Portorož, Slovenia, during the week of September 6th to 10th, 2015. The scientific part of...

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Corporate Authors: World Congress on Electroporation and Pulsed Electric Fields in Biology, Medicine and Food & Environmental Technologies Portorož, Slovenia)
Other Authors: World Congress on Electroporation and Pulsed Electric Fields in Biology, Medicine and Food & Environmental Technologies, Jarm, T., Kramar, P., International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Singapore : Springer, 2016.
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
Series: IFMBE proceedings ; v. 53.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Satellite Events Incorporated in WC2015; Committees; Sponsors; Table of Contents; Invited Plenary Lectures; About the First Industrial Scale PEF
  • Plants and Heinz Doevenspeck'sRole
  • A Historical Review; I. INTRODUCTION; II. DOEVENSPECKS̀ PROJECTSFROM 1958 UNTIL 1983; III. COOPERATION DOEVENSPECK- KRUPP UNTIL 1993; Harnessing the Structure Modifying Potential of Pulsed ElectricFields (PEF)
  • Food Processing Examples in Product Stabilization, Process Acceleration and Compound Extraction; I. INTRODUCTION; II. CASE STUDY 1: PEFIN HURDLE PRESERVATION.
  • III. CASE STUDY 2: PEF IN SPOREINACTIVATIONIV. CASE STUDY 3: PEF IN HYDROLYSISTERMINATION; V. CASE STUDY 4: PEF IN WASTEVALORISATION; VI. CASE STUDY 5: PEFIN MEAT TENDERISATION; VII. CASE STUDY 6: PEF IN MEAT CURING; VIII. CONCLUSIONS; Fundamental and Applied Aspects of Pulsed Electric Fieldsfor Microbial Inactivation; I. INTRODUCTION; II. BASICS PRINCIPLES OF MICROBIALINACTIVATION BY PULSED ELECTRIC FIELDS; III. FACTORS AFFECTING MICROBIALINACTIVATION BY PULSED ELECTRIC FIELDS; IV. FOOD PRESERVATION BY PULSEDELECTRIC FIELDS.
  • How Imaging Molecule Uptake into Cells can Reveal the Mechanismsof Membrane ElectropermeabilizationI. INTRODUCTION; II. MECHANISMS OF MEMBRANEELECTROPERMEABILIZATION AND DNA TRANSFER INTO CELLS.; III. LIPID VESICLES AND 3D CELL CULTURESAS OTHER MODELS TO STUDYELECTROPERMEABILIZATION; IV. CONCLUSIONS; Tissue Reactions to Electroporation and Electrochemotherapy: Vascular Effects that have Implications in Tumor Treatment; I. INTRODUCTION; II. VASCULAR EFFECTS OF ELECTROPORATION; III. VASCULAR EFFECTS OF ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; IV. CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS; V. CONCLUSIONS.
  • Nanosecond Pulses and Beyond
  • Towards Antenna Applications I. INTRODUCTION; II. NANOSECOND PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; III. FROM NANOSECOND TOPICO SECOND PULSES; IV. PICO SECOND PULSE GENERATORS; V. BIOELECTRIC EFFECTS OF PICO SECOND PULSED ELECTRIC FIELDS (PSPEF); VI. FROM INVASIVE PULSE DELIVERY SYSTEMS TO ANTENNAS ; VII. CONCLUSION; Optimal Irreversible Electroporation Techniques in the Treatment of LocallyAdvanced Liver and Pancreatic Cancer; I. INTRODUCTION; II. LOCAL TISSUE FACTORS THAT AFFECT IRE; III. TECHNIQUE OF PERFORMING IRE IN LIVERFOR TUMORS WITH VASCULAR PROXIMITY.
  • IV. CLINICAL RESULTS OF IRREVERSIBLE ELECTROPORATION FOR HEPATIC MALIGNANCIES Electrotransfer of Antiangiogenic shRNA against Endoglinfor Effective Cancer Treatment; I. VASCULAR TARGETED THERAPIES; II. ENDOGLIN; III. SiRNA AGAINST ENDOGLIN; IV. VASCULAR TARGETED EFFECTS OF shRNAAGAINST ENDOGLIN; V. ANTITUMOR AND ANTIMETASTATICEFFECTS OF shRNA AGAINST ENDOGLIN; VI. COMPLIANCE WITH ETHICAL REQUIREMENTS; VII. CONCLUSIONS; Abiotic Gene Transfer
  • A Rarity or a Ubiquity?; I. INTRODUCTION; II. DO THE THREE BIOTIC HGT MECHANISMSSUFFICE?; III. LABORATORY HGT TECHNIQUES ARE ALLABIOTIC.