Primary Cell Cultures and Cell Lines

2008 ◽  
pp. 21-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inna Divinski ◽  
Inbar Pilzer ◽  
Illana Gozes
Keyword(s):  
Cell Lines ◽  
Cell Cultures ◽  
Primary Cell ◽  
Primary Cell Cultures

scholarly journals Cytotoxic Effect of Trabectedin In Human Adrenocortical Carcinoma Cell Lines and Primary Cells

Cancers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 928 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Abate ◽  
Elisa Rossini ◽  
Sara Anna Bonini ◽  
Martina Fragni ◽  
Deborah Cosentini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cytotoxic Activity ◽  
Cell Lines ◽  
Cell Cultures ◽  
Adrenocortical Carcinoma ◽  
Cytotoxic Effect ◽  
Alkylating Agents ◽  
Primary Cell ◽  
Primary Cell Cultures ◽  
High Cytotoxicity

Mitotane is the only drug approved for the treatment of adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC). The regimen to be added to mitotane is a chemotherapy including etoposide, doxorubicin, and cisplatin. This pharmacological approach, however, has a limited efficacy and significant toxicity. Evidence indicates that ACC seems to be sensitive to alkylating agents. Trabectedin is an anti-tumor drug that acts as an alkylating agent with a complex mechanism of action. Here, we investigated whether trabectedin could exert a cytotoxic activity in in vitro cell models of ACC. Cell viability was evaluated by MTT assay on ACC cell lines and primary cell cultures. The gene expression was evaluated by q-RT-PCR, while protein expression and localization were studied by Western blot and immunocytochemistry. Combination experiments were performed to evaluate their interaction on ACC cell line viability. Trabectedin demonstrated high cytotoxicity at sub-nanomolar concentrations in ACC cell lines and patient-derived primary cell cultures. The drug was able to reduce /β catenin nuclear localization, although it is unclear whether this effect is involved in the observed cytotoxicity. Trabectedin/mitotane combination exerted a synergic cytotoxic effect in NCI-H295R cells. Trabectedin has antineoplastic activity in ACC cells. The synergistic cytotoxic activity of trabectedin with mitotane provides the rationale for testing this combination in a clinical study.

scholarly journals Molluscan cells in culture: primary cell cultures and cell lines

2013 ◽  
Vol 91 (6) ◽  
pp. 391-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.P. Yoshino ◽  
U. Bickham ◽  
C.J. Bayne
Keyword(s):  
Cell Line ◽  
Cell Lines ◽  
Cell Cultures ◽  
Snail Host ◽  
Primary Cell ◽  
Neoplastic Disease ◽  
Freshwater Bivalve ◽  
Primary Cell Cultures ◽  
Organ Systems

In vitro cell culture systems from molluscs have significantly contributed to our basic understanding of complex physiological processes occurring within or between tissue-specific cells, yielding information unattainable using intact animal models. In vitro cultures of neuronal cells from gastropods show how simplified cell models can inform our understanding of complex networks in intact organisms. Primary cell cultures from marine and freshwater bivalve and gastropod species are used as biomonitors for environmental contaminants, as models for gene transfer technologies, and for studies of innate immunity and neoplastic disease. Despite efforts to isolate proliferative cell lines from molluscs, the snail Biomphalaria glabrata (Say, 1818) embryonic (Bge) cell line is the only existing cell line originating from any molluscan species. Taking an organ systems approach, this review summarizes efforts to establish molluscan cell cultures and describes the varied applications of primary cell cultures in research. Because of the unique status of the Bge cell line, an account is presented of the establishment of this cell line, and of how these cells have contributed to our understanding of snail host – parasite interactions. Finally, we detail the difficulties commonly encountered in efforts to establish cell lines from molluscs and discuss how these difficulties might be overcome.

Cell lines and primary cell cultures in the study of bone cell biology

2004 ◽  
Vol 228 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 79-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicky Kartsogiannis ◽  
Kong Wah Ng
Keyword(s):  
Cell Lines ◽  
Cell Cultures ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Bone Cell ◽  
Primary Cell ◽  
Primary Cell Cultures

P13.19 Bi-modular G-quadruplex DNA-crypto-aptamers diminish viability of glioma primary cell cultures of patients

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. ii36-ii37
Author(s):  
A M Kopylov ◽  
N Samoylenkova ◽  
A Bizayeva ◽  
A Arutyunyan ◽  
V Tashlitsky ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Lines ◽  
Cell Cultures ◽  
Human Cancer ◽  
Primary Cell ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Moderate Activity ◽  
Structure Comparison ◽  
Primary Cell Cultures ◽  
G Quadruplex ◽  
Low Efficiency

Abstract BACKGROUND G-quadruplex oligonucleotides (GQs) exhibit specific anti-survival activity in human cancer cell lines; they can selectively inhibit the viability/proliferation. The most studied, AS1411, had been in clinical trials. This anti-proliferative ability of GQs could be translated into glioma, which currently has poor prognosis and low-efficiency therapeutic treatments for glioblastoma multiform (GBM). Set of GQs have been designed, synthesized, and tested: they have different amount of Q-quartets, they have dimers of different GQ modules: either covalent dimers or non-covalent ones; all of them could be coined as ‘twins’. MATERIAL AND METHODS Folding of synthetic DNA oligonucleotides into GQs and thermal stability have been studied by circular dichroism, melting with unfolding-folding regimes, oligomerization was followed by original SE-HPLC. Conventional human cell lines U87 and fibroblasts from human embryo (HEF) were provided from the collection of the Centre of Neurosurgery (Moscow, Russia). GBM primary cell cultures N1, G11, Sus/fP2, G22, G23, and G01 were developed in Burdenko National Medical Research Centre of Neurosurgery (NMRCN) from the surgery samples of patients (PCC_SSP). All samples had WT IDH1. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Burdenko NMRCN, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (№_12/2020, 15.12.2020). All subjects gave written informed consent in accordance with the guidelines of Declaration of Helsinki. Cell viability was tested by conventional MTT-test. RESULTS Novel bi-modular GQ, bi-(AID-1-T), twin of three-quartet AID-1-T, was designed by covalent conjugation of two AID-1-Ts via three thymidine link, TTT; and linking did not interfere with its GQ structure. Comparison of bi-(AID-1-T) with mono-modular AID-1-T, mono-modular two-quartet HD1, bi-modular bi-HD1, and two-quartet AS1411, was made. Among five GQs, bi-(AID-1-T) had the highest anti-survival activity for U87, while not affecting the control, HEF. GQs, for the first time, were tested on several PCC_SSP. Sensitivity of PCC_SSP toward GQs varied, with apparent IC50 of less than 1 μM for bi-(AID-1-T) toward the most sensitive G11 (glioma, Grade III). CONCLUSION GQs as anti-proliferative crypto-aptamers with moderate activity due to restricted functioning of apparent GQ-binding proteins could be applied toward real glioma PCC_SSP. Variety of effects reflects glioma inter-tumor heterogeneity.Research was funded by Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, grant number № 075-15-2020-809 (13.1902.21.0030) and by Russian Foundation for Basic Research, grants number №18-29-01047

The effect of tricyclic antidepressants on cutaneous melanoma cell lines and primary cell cultures

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine A. Parker ◽  
Sharon Glaysher ◽  
Jeremy Hurren ◽  
Louise A. Knight ◽  
Deidre McCormick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Lines ◽  
Cell Cultures ◽  
Melanoma Cell ◽  
Cutaneous Melanoma ◽  
Tricyclic Antidepressants ◽  
Primary Cell ◽  
Primary Cell Cultures ◽  
Melanoma Cell Lines
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