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MeSH Heading: Electroporation
Tree Number(s): E05.200.500.454; E05.242.448; E05.301.500
Unique ID: D018274
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D018274
Scope Note: A technique in which electric pulses, in kilovolts per centimeter and of microsecond-to-millisecond duration, cause a loss of the semipermeability of CELL MEMBRANES, thus leading to ion leakage, escape of metabolites, and increased uptake by cells of drugs, molecular probes, and DNA. Depending on the dosage, the formation of openings in the cell membranes caused by the electric pulses may or may not be reversible.
Entry Term(s): Electric Field-Mediated Cell Permeabilization; Electropermeabilisation; Irreversible Electroporation; Reversible Electroporation
Public MeSH Note: 94
History Note: 94
Date Established: 1994/01/01
Date of Entry: 1993/06/03
Revision Date: 2022/04/08

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Concept UI: M0027505
Scope Note: A technique in which electric pulses, in kilovolts per centimeter and of microsecond-to-millisecond duration, cause a loss of the semipermeability of CELL MEMBRANES, thus leading to ion leakage, escape of metabolites, and increased uptake by cells of drugs, molecular probes, and DNA. Depending on the dosage, the formation of openings in the cell membranes caused by the electric pulses may or may not be reversible.
Terms: Electroporation Preferred Term
Term UI T054576
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1994); Electric Field-Mediated Cell Permeabilization
Term UI T001113084
Date10/14/2021
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2023); Electropermeabilisation
Term UI T667446
Date03/02/2006
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2007)

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