the permeabilization of the live cells membrane by the delivery of electric pulses has fundamental interest in medicine, in particular in tumors treatment by electrochemotherapy. Since underlying mechanisms are still not fully understood, we studied the impact of electric pulses on the biochemical composition of live cells thanks to label-free optical methods: confocal Raman microspectroscopy and terahertz microscopy. A dose effect was observed after cells exposure to different field intensities and a major impact on cell peptide/protein content was found. Raman measurements reveal that protein structure and/or environment are modified by the electric pulses while terahertz measurements suggest a leakage of proteins and other intracellular compounds. We show that Raman and terahertz modalities are a particularly attractive complement to fluorescence microscopy which is the reference optical technique in the case of electropermeabilization. finally, we propose an analytical model for the influx and efflux of non-permeant molecules through transiently (electro)permeabilized cell membranes. The main consequence of the delivery of high intensity pulsed electric fields (PEF) of very short duration on biological samples is the permeabilization of the plasma membrane 1. This interaction between PEF and biological samples, termed electropermeabilization or electroporation, has led to many applications in industry or medicine, in particular using 100 microsecond pulses (µsPEF). For instance, electrochemotherapy consists in the combination of tumor cells electropermeabilization and a chemotherapeutic agent such as bleomycin or cisplatin drugs 2,3. Electrochemotherapy is nowadays commonly used for the treatment of many cancer types: skin cancer 4 , breast cancer 5 , head and neck cancer 6 , pancreatic cancer 7 , etc. Although electropermeabilization has been studied for decades, the underlying mechanisms are still not fully understood. It is well established that the electric field induces an additive transmembrane potential to the resting transmembrane potential of cells 8. Molecular dynamics simulations 9,10 have demonstrated that the creation of pores into the membrane is a stochastic phenomenon: the increase of the external field amplitude increases the probability of formation of the pores. Therefore, to ensure that pores occur within the duration of the applied pulses, appropriated field amplitudes must be used, a situation that led to the definition of functional threshold amplitudes by the experimentalists. The destabilization of the cell membrane is also associated with long-term effects on the membrane, such as membrane disorder and a decrease of membrane elasticity, 11,12 that occur minutes after the PEF delivery. Recently, we considered biochemical modifications of the membrane as the major contributor to the electropermeabilization process. Mass spectrometry analysis of the chemical composition of a simple membrane model, Giant Unilamellar Vesicles (GUV), exposed to PEF showed the peroxidation of phospholipids ...