Ablation Topics

• wolff parkinson white syndrome
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• laser ablation
• cardiac arrhythmias
• supraventricular tachycardia
• c elegans
• skin wrinkles
• community researchers
• skin spots
• glacial ice
• caspases
• prolonged period
• columbia university
• target
• otolaryngology
• specificity
• lasers
• regeneration
• period of time
• waves

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Ablation, Ablation

Ablation deposits are the masses of detritus left after surface melting of glacial ice.

Surface ablation in the skin (also called resurfacing, because it induces regeneration) can be carried out by chemicals (peeling) or by lasers. Its purpose is to remove skin spots, aged skin, wrinkles, thus rejuvenating it. Surface ablation is also employed in otolaryngology for several kinds of surgery, such as for snoring. Ablation therapy using radiofrequency waves on the heart is used to cure a variety of cardiac arrhythmias such as supraventricular tachycardia, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (WPW), ventricular tachycardia and more recently atrial fibrillation. The term is often used in the context of laser ablation, a process by which the molecular bonds of a material are dissolved by a laser.

Genetically ablated lines can be maintained for a prolonged period of time and shared within the research community. Researchers at Columbia University report of reconstituted caspases combined from C. elegans and humans, which maintain a high degree of target specificity. The genetic ablation techniques described could prove useful in battling cancer.

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