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Device for electrochemotherapy

US8126543B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

C.R.F. SOCIETA' CONSORTILE PER AZIONI · IT

Inventors

Marco Pizzi · Casale Monferrato, IT
Valentina Grasso · Orbassano, IT

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 1, 2005
Grant date	Feb 28, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 25, 2028

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61N1/326
WIPO fieldPharmaceuticals
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A device for electrochemotherapy comprises an electric micro- or nano-capacitor which can be injected in the blood circulation of a human or animal body, including a pyroelectric or piezoelectric layer which can be excited from the outside of the human or animal body, for generating an electric field in the immediate vicinity of a tumor cell, together with the administration of a chemotherapeutic agent. The chemotherapeutic agent may be administered with independent means, but preferably is bound to the outer surface of the microcapacitor and is delivered because of the temperature increase which is generated at the time of the microcapacitor excitation.

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