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Electroporation

"Electroporation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A technique in which electric pulses of intensity in kilovolts per centimeter and of microsecond-to-millisecond duration cause a temporary 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.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Electroporation" by people in this website by year, and whether "Electroporation" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 45 publications over 18 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2001
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