Posted on 03/14/2006 1:04:59 PM PST by Ben Mugged
A team of scientists from Old Dominion University and Eastern Virginia Medical School has reported killing melanoma s in mice using lightning-fast, high-powered jolts of electricity.
The researchers expect their paper to be placed online Wednesday in the journal Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications .
It's the culmination of at least eight years of work seeking possible health benefits from short, high-voltage doses of electricity. The results, the researchers think , eventually could translate into an effective cancer treatment that carries no side effects.
"We've never had a tumor that didn't respond," said the lead researcher, Richard Nuccitelli , an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Old Dominion. "Every tumor has shrunk. We know we can eliminate them with the right conditions."
The electric bursts often disrupted the blood flow to the tumor cells and shrunk their nuclei by 50 percent, Nuccitelli said.
The scientists found that they could kill the tumors with hundreds of electrical pulses in two treatments given two to three weeks apart. Each burst of electricity carried 4,000 volts and lasted less than one-millionth of a second.
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So, 8000 volts lasting more than 10 seconds would be even better, right? Sheez. This isn't rocket science.
I heard you can;t get easily electrocuted by peeing on eletrified wire. The pee doesn't form continuous conducting beam, but get's interrupted. Try it!
New cure for prostate cancer?
I heard you can;t get easily electrocuted by peeing on eletrified wire.
You don't get electrocuted because it clicks on and off and gives you a chance to let go. Try a homemade one that doesn't "click" and you will know what I mean.
On "mythbusters" they tested it with eletrified rails and the pee doesn't form a continous beam, pee breaks up in the end and the drops don't connect so no current flows through.
I suspect (so did they) that it may still be possible.
I think by peeing with some pressure, for instance. But next time you take a leak, pay attention at you're wee!
It really breaks up.
Haiku post - very cool
But what's the amperage?
There ya go. Why would the cancer centers, doctors, scientists, etc. want to find a cure? Duh. They will find the cure when a worse disease is created to take it's place. When I was growing up, all the worry was Polio. All the research $$$ went to finding a cure. They found the cure when cancer became the new epidemic. Maybe Bird Flu will push cancer off the map. Am I cynical? Yep.
"We've never had a tumor that didn't respond,"
Or a patient I'll bet. YOWSERS I CAN DANCE !!!!
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