Electroporation technique is widely used in biotechnology and medicine for the transport of various molecules through the membranes of biological cells. Different mathematical models of electroporation have been proposed in the literature to study pore formation in plasma and nuclear membranes. These studies are mainly based on models using a single isolated cell with a canonical shape. In this work, a space–time (x,y,t) multiphysics model based on quasi-static Maxwell’s equations and nonlinear Smoluchowski’s equation has been developed to investigate the electroporation phenomenon induced by pulsed electric field in multicellular systems having irregularly shape. The dielectric dispersion of the cell compartments such as nuclear and plasmatic membranes, cytoplasm, nucleoplasm and external medium have been incorporated into the numerical algorithm, too. Moreover, the irregular cell shapes have been modeled by using the Gielis transformations.

Design of Electroporation Process in Irregularly Shaped Multicellular Systems / Mescia, Luciano; Chiapperino, Michele; Bia, Pietro; Lamacchia, Claudio; Gielis, Johan; Caratelli, Diego. - In: ELECTRONICS. - ISSN 2079-9292. - ELETTRONICO. - 8:1(2019). [10.3390/electronics8010037]

Design of Electroporation Process in Irregularly Shaped Multicellular Systems

Mescia, Luciano;Chiapperino, Michele;Lamacchia, Claudio;
2019-01-01

Abstract

Electroporation technique is widely used in biotechnology and medicine for the transport of various molecules through the membranes of biological cells. Different mathematical models of electroporation have been proposed in the literature to study pore formation in plasma and nuclear membranes. These studies are mainly based on models using a single isolated cell with a canonical shape. In this work, a space–time (x,y,t) multiphysics model based on quasi-static Maxwell’s equations and nonlinear Smoluchowski’s equation has been developed to investigate the electroporation phenomenon induced by pulsed electric field in multicellular systems having irregularly shape. The dielectric dispersion of the cell compartments such as nuclear and plasmatic membranes, cytoplasm, nucleoplasm and external medium have been incorporated into the numerical algorithm, too. Moreover, the irregular cell shapes have been modeled by using the Gielis transformations.
2019
Design of Electroporation Process in Irregularly Shaped Multicellular Systems / Mescia, Luciano; Chiapperino, Michele; Bia, Pietro; Lamacchia, Claudio; Gielis, Johan; Caratelli, Diego. - In: ELECTRONICS. - ISSN 2079-9292. - ELETTRONICO. - 8:1(2019). [10.3390/electronics8010037]
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