Plasma-treated thermosensitive hydrogels, good candidates to provide local anticancer therapies

PhD student Xavi Solé-Martí, together with other members of the ERC APACHE project have just released his latest paper, "Thermosensitive hydrogels to deliver reactive species generated by cold atmospheric plasma: a case study with methylcellulose", in RSC Biomaterials Science.

In this work, they developed a thermosensitive hydrogel able to form a gel at physiological temperatures while remaining in the liquid phase at room temperature to allow suitable formation of plasma-generated RONS. The release of these RONS can induce apoptosis to cancer cells, postulating plasma-treated thermosensitive hydrogels as good candidates to provide local anticancer therapies.

We invite you to take a look to this Open Access publication:

Xavi Solé-Martí, Tània Vilella, Cédric Labay, Francesco Tampieri, Maria-Pau Ginebra, Cristina Canal. Thermosensitive hydrogels to deliver reactive species generated by cold atmospheric plasma: a case study with methylcellulose.  Biomater. Sci., 2022, Advance Article. doi: doi.org/10.1039/D2BM00308B