Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2015, 8 (2): 1550008, Published Online: Jan. 10, 2019
Tumor therapy by fast moving magnetic nanoparticle under low-frequency alternating magnetic field
Abstract
Magnetic nanoparticle plays an important role in biomedical engineering, especially in tumor therapy. In this paper, a new technique has been developed by using the rapid moving magnetic nanoparticle under a low-frequency alternating magnetic field (LFAMF) to kill tumor cells. The LFAMF system which was used to drive magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) was setup with the magnetic field frequency and power range at ~10–100 Hz and ~10–200mT, respectively. During the experiment, the LFAMF was adjusted at different frequencies and power levels. The experimental results show that the liver tumor cells (HepG2) mixed with MNPs (10 μg/mL) became partial fragments when exposed in the LFAMF with different frequencies (~10–100 Hz) and power (~10–200 mT), and the higher the frequency or the power, the more the tumor cells were killed at the same magnetic nanoparticle concentration. Conclusion: Tumor cells were effectively damaged by MNPs under LFAMF, which suggests that they had great potential to be applied in tumor therapy.
Yangyang Liu, Zhiyu Qian, Jianhua Yin, Xiao Wang. Tumor therapy by fast moving magnetic nanoparticle under low-frequency alternating magnetic field[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2015, 8(2): 1550008.