Miklavčič, DamijanDavalos, Rafael V.2016-01-152016-01-152015-08-27BioMedical Engineering OnLine. 2015 Aug 27;14(Suppl 3):I1http://hdl.handle.net/10919/64462When a cell is exposed to a sufficiently intense electric field (for a sufficient duration), local defects in the cell membrane appear and become permeable to molecules that otherwise cannot pass through it. This phenomenon is commonly known as electroporation but additional terms electropermeabilization and PEF (i.e. pulsed electric field) treatment are commonly used as well (the latter mainly in food processing area). In reversible electroporation, cell membrane permeabilization to molecules otherwise deprived of transmembrane transport mechanisms is a transient phenomenon as after some time membrane reseals and reestablishes its homeostatic semipermeable properties, allowing ions and other small molecules to passively cross...application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalArticle - Refereed2016-01-15Miklavcic and Davalos;https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-925X-14-S3-I1