ABBREVIATION E – strength of electric field τ – pulse duration HV – high voltage, short pulses LV – low voltage, long pulses MEM - Minimum Essential Medium S – MEM - Spinner Minimum Essential medium LISPB – low ionic strength pulsing buffer ECT – electrochemotherapy LLC – Lewis Lung Carcinoma DC-3F – Chinese hamster lung fibroblastocites LPB – fibrosarkoma cell line BLM – bleomycin CPA – cyclophosphamide LY – Lucifer Yellow 1. INTRODUCTION The delivery of appropriate short and intense electric pulses to living cells, either in suspension or in tissue, results in a transient and reversible alteration of their cell membrane [Mir et al., 1995; Neumann et al., 1989]. The concept widely accepted is that under influence of strong external electric field the potential difference on the cell membrane occurs [Bernhardt and Pauly, 1973]. As a result of it the nanosize transient aqueous pores in the plasma membrane are created [Abidor et al, 1979, Leikin et al., 1986]. The process is called electroporation and initiated pores are named electropores [Neumann et al., 1989]. It is proposed that at higher field strength and pulse duration more and larger pores are initiated [Glaser et al., 1988]. At the tolerant pulse intensities the resealing of pores takes place and membrane came back to the previous state. The process is called reversible electroporation - REP [Weaver and Chizmadzhev, 1966]. Resealing of pores is in a range of milliseconds - minutes and often is... [to full text]