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ArticleScientific reports2025

Reassessing lidocaine as an electroporation sensitizer in vitro.

Anja Blažič, Rok Šmerc, Tamara Polajžer, Damijan Miklavčič, Lea Rems

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Article in Scientific reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors.

Anja BlažičFaculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, 1000, Slovenia.
Rok ŠmercFaculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, 1000, Slovenia.
Tamara PolajžerFaculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, 1000, Slovenia.
Damijan MiklavčičFaculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, 1000, Slovenia.
Lea RemsFaculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, 1000, Slovenia. lea.rems@fe.uni-lj.si.

Funding

European Union and ARIS through NextGenerationEU and NOO funding MN-0023European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program 893077European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme 101115323 - REINCARNATIONSlovenian Research and Innovation Agency J2-2503Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency Junior Researchers fundingSlovenian Research and Innovation Agency P2-0249
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Abstract

High-intensity pulsed electric fields induce transient increase in membrane permeability, a phenomenon known as electroporation, with broad applications in medicine, including electrochemotherapy (ECT), gene electrotransfer and tissue ablation. As electroporation technologies become increasingly established in clinical practice, understanding how commonly used pharmacological agents influence treatment outcomes is gaining importance. Lidocaine, a widely used local anesthetic and ion channel modulator, has recently been investigated as a potential sensitizer to enhance the efficacy of electroporation. Here, we examined the effects of lidocaine on membrane permeabilization and cell viability using standard 8 × 100 µs ECT pulses across four cell lines: melanoma B16-F1, myoblast C2C12, CHO-K1 cells with low ion channel expression, and NS-HEK cells with stable Na

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Anesthetics, LocalElectroporationLidocaineAnimalsCell LineCell Line, TumorCell Membrane PermeabilityCell SurvivalCHO CellsCricetinaeCricetulusElectrochemotherapyHEK293 CellsHumansMiceAnesthetics, LocalLidocaineCell survivalElectropermeabilizationElectroporationLidocaineMelanoma cellsSensitization

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PMID40665133
PMCPMC12264040

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