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KMID : 0613820130230060838
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Journal of Life Science
2013 Volume.23 No. 6 p.838 ~ p.846
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Plasma Medicine: How can Nonthermal Atmospheric Plasma be Applied to Medicine?
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Park Sang-Rye
Hong Jin-Woo
Lee Hae-June
Kim Gyoo-Cheon
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Abstract
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As a forth state of material, plasma is ionized gas, which generates characteristically various reactive species. After late of $20^{th}$ 수식 이미지 century, plasma has been widely used in industry. After nonthermal atmospheric plasma was developed, it has been applied to biomedical fields. Nonthermal atmospheric plasma does not give thermal damages to human tissues, and it shows the high efficiency in cancer treatment, sterilization, tooth bleaching, coagulation, and wound healing. Because the application of plasma to biomedicine has been expanded through interdisciplinary studies, its value of high medical technology is increasing now. Since nonthermal atmospheric plasma was first applied to the mammalian cells and microorganisms, many valuable studies has been performed for about last 10 years, so that now the new research area called 'plasma medicine' has been formed. This article introduces the recent data resulted from plasma medicine and helps to understand the plasma medicine.
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KEYWORD
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Nonthermal atmospheric plasma, plasma medicine, reactive species
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