Plasma medicine for neuroscience-an introduction

Xu Yan; Jiting Ouyang; Chenyang Zhang; Zhongfang Shi; Boran Wang; Kostya Ken Ostrikov

doi:10.1186/s41016-019-0172-9

Plasma medicine for neuroscience-an introduction

Chin Neurosurg J. 2019 Oct 19:5:25. doi: 10.1186/s41016-019-0172-9. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Xu Yan¹, Jiting Ouyang², Chenyang Zhang², Zhongfang Shi¹, Boran Wang³, Kostya Ken Ostrikov^{4

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Affiliations

¹ Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100050 China.
² School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081 China.
³ Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100050 China.
⁴ Institute for Health and Biomedical Innovation and School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 4000 Australia.
⁵ CSIRO-QUT Joint Sustainable Processes and Devices Laboratory, PO Box 218, Bradfield Road, Lindfield, Sydney, New South Wales 2070 Australia.

Abstract

Plasma is an ionized gas. It is typically formed at high temperature. As a result of both the development of low-temperature plasma sources and a better understanding of complex plasma phenomena over the last decade, "plasma medicine" has become a booming interdisciplinary research topic of growing importance that explores enormous opportunities at the interface of chemistry, plasma physics, and biomedical sciences with engineering. This review presents the latest development in plasma medicine in the area of the central nervous system and aims to introduce cutting-edge plasma medicine to clinical and translational medical researchers and practitioners.

Keywords: Cold plasma; Neuroscience; Plasma medicine; ROS/RNS.

Publication types

Review