The instant Cellular Response to Cold Atmospheric Plasma Treatment

Cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) has shown its promising application in medicine, including wound healing, sterilization, and cancer treatment. The CAP-originated reactive species including reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS) are regarded as the major factors of the cellular response to a CAP treatment, such as apoptosis, DNA damage, and mitochondrial damage. Cancer cells have been just regarded as a passive target of the CAP treatment.