Patent ID: 7632413
Filing Date: 2009-12-15
Classification: A61K,A61L

Abstract:
1. A method of neutralizing, removing and/or preventing the growth of hyperproliferative undifferentiated, or virally infected cells suspended in a physiological fluid comprising: placing a compartment containing the physiological fluid in a water bath; emitting ultrasound having a frequency higher than 100 kHz into said water bath at a power level that is about 7 mW/cm emitting gas comprising microbubbles into the ultrasound field in the compartment containing the physiological fluid, such that the emission of ultrasound and gas bubbles induces significant programmed cell death in the hyperproliferative, undifferentiated, or virally infected cells without causing significant cavitation or significantly heating the fluid so as to maintain the temperature of the physiological fluid at less than 40 degrees C.