scholarly journals Comparison of organics and heavy metals acute toxicities to Vibrio fischeri

2016 ◽  
Vol 81 (6) ◽  
pp. 697-705 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuepeng Yang ◽  
Yan Ji ◽  
Fangfang Wang ◽  
Jia Xu ◽  
Xiangzhen Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Cell Death ◽  
Benzoic Acid ◽  
Death Rate ◽  
Vibrio Fischeri ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Inhibition Rate ◽  
Cell Death Rate ◽  
Bioluminescence Inhibition ◽  
The Difference

Vibrio fischeri bioluminescence inhibition has been widely used to test acute toxicities of metals and organics contaminants. However, the differences of metals and organics acute toxicities to V. fischeri have not been compared. Here, four heavy metals (Zn2+, Cu2+, Cd2+, Cr6+) and five organics (phenol, benzoic acid, p-hydroxy benzoic acid, nitro-benzene and benzene) acute toxicities to V. fischeri were investigated. Heavy metals toxicities to V. fischeri were increased along with the reaction time, while the organics toxicities kept the same level in different reaction times. In order to explain the difference, the relative cell death rate of V. fischeri was detected. In metals toxicities tests, the bioluminescence inhibition rate of V. fischeri was found to be significantly higher than the relative cell death rate (P<0.05), while for the organics toxicities tests, the cell death rate was similar to the bioluminescence inhibition rate. These results indicated that organics acute toxicities to V. fischeri could reflect the death of cell, but metals acute toxicities to V. fischeri may not lead to the death of cell, just represent the bioluminescence inhibition.

scholarly journals Antioxidant supplementation decreases the cell death rate in the prostatic stromal tissue of long-term castrated rats

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guilherme Fartes ◽  
Fábio Lorenzetti ◽  
Larissa Beloti Salvador ◽  
Valdemar Ortiz ◽  
Miriam Dambros
Keyword(s):  
Cell Death ◽  
Death Rate ◽  
Antioxidant Supplementation ◽  
Cell Death Rate ◽  
Stromal Tissue

scholarly journals Towards Understanding the Involvement of H+-ATPase in Programmed Cell Death of Psammosilene tunicoides after Oxalic Acid Application

Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (22) ◽  
pp. 6957
Author(s):  
Xinyu Jiang ◽  
Mohammad Aqa Mohammadi ◽  
Yuan Qin ◽  
Zongshen Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Cell Death ◽  
Programmed Cell Death ◽  
Oxalic Acid ◽  
Atpase Activity ◽  
Intracellular Ph ◽  
Death Rate ◽  
Ph Value ◽  
Intracellular Acidification ◽  
Cell Death Rate

Psammosilene tunicoides is a unique perennial medicinal plant species native to the Southwestern regions of China. Its wild population is rare and endangered due to over-excessive collection and extended growth (4–5 years). This research shows that H+-ATPase activity was a key factor for oxalate-inducing programmed cell death (PCD) of P. tunicoides suspension cells. Oxalic acid (OA) is an effective abiotic elicitor that enhances a plant cell’s resistance to environmental stress. However, the role of OA in this process remains to be mechanistically unveiled. The present study evaluated the role of OA-induced cell death using an inverted fluorescence microscope after staining with Evans blue, FDA, PI, and Rd123. OA-stimulated changes in K+ and Ca2+ trans-membrane flows using a patch-clamp method, together with OA modulation of H+-ATPase activity, were further examined. OA treatment increased cell death rate in a dosage-and duration-dependent manner. OA significantly decreased the mitochondria activity and damaged its electron transport chain. The OA treatment also decreased intracellular pH, while the FC increased the pH value. Simultaneously, NH4Cl caused intracellular acidification. The OA treatment independently resulted in 90% and the FC led to 25% cell death rates. Consistently, the combined treatments caused a 31% cell death rate. Furthermore, treatment with EGTA caused a similar change in intracellular pH value to the La3+ and OA application. Combined results suggest that OA-caused cell death could be attributed to intracellular acidification and the involvement of OA in the influx of extracellular Ca2+, thereby leading to membrane depolarization. Here we explore the resistance mechanism of P. tunicoides cells against various stresses endowed by OA treatment.

Clinical availability of chemotherapy response assay using adenosine triphosphate in breast cancer patients

2006 ◽  
Vol 24 (18_suppl) ◽  
pp. 10592-10592
Author(s):  
J. Jeong ◽  
S. Lee ◽  
S. Yoon ◽  
W. Jung ◽  
H. Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Cell Death ◽  
Cancer Cells ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Death Rate ◽  
Chemotherapeutic Agents ◽  
Chemotherapy Response ◽  
Breast Cancer Patients ◽  
Cell Death Rate ◽  
Her 2

10592 Background: The response to chemotherapeutic agents of breast cancer is heterogeneous from patient to patient. Several methods were developed to decide chemotherapeutic agents which were sensitive to individual patients but so far, there are no ways which is commonly used in the clinic to tailor the treatment. In this study, we performed the chemotherapy response assay using adenosine triphosphate (ATP-CRA) in breast cancer patients and assessed the clinical availability. Methods: From March 2004 to February 2005, 65 breast cancer patients were enrolled in this study. After elimination of normal contaminated cells, cancer cells were evenly divided and treated with commonly used chemotherapeutic drugs in breast cancer(doxorubicin, epirubicin, 5-FU, paclitaxel, docetaxel, vinorelbine, and gemcitabine). 7 Drug-treated cancer cells and untreated cancer cells were cultured for 48 hours and then ATP was measured. To verify in vitro ATP-CRA indirectly, we analyzed the correlation between cell death rate of doxorubicin and epirubicin, and between doxorubicin and paclitaxel. We also analyzed the mean death rate of doxorubicin, epirubicin and paclitaxel by HER-2 status. Results: The ATP-CRA was performed sucessfully in 62 patients. (95.4%) In all cases, we can get the results within 7 days. The range of cell death rate was very wide, from 0 to more than 50%, except gemcitabine. Epirubicin showed the highest mean cell death rate (35.7%) and doxorubicin, paclitaxel in order. According to the chemosensitivity index, paclitaxel is the most frequently first-ranked and doxorubicin, epirubicin in order. Correlation coefficient between the cell death rate of doxorubicin and epirubicin is 0.58 and 0.2 between paclitaxel and epirubicin. In HER-2 positive group, mean cell death rate of epirubicin and paclitaxel was significantly higher than in HER-2 negative group (p = 0.017, p = 0.036) and same trend was seen in doxorubicin but not statistically significant (p = 0.060). Conclusions: ATP-CRA showed heterogeneous results in individual patients. ATP-CRA was successful and can be performed within short time period. With indirect comparison, it showed similar results with in vivo studies but for clinical use, the prospective randomized controlled trial should be preceded. No significant financial relationships to disclose.

scholarly journals Toxicity of Some Pesticides, Heavy Metals and Their Mixtures to Vibrio fischeri Bacteria and Daphnia magna: Comparative Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sameeh A. Mansour ◽  
Alia A. Abdel-Hamid ◽  
Azza W. Ibrahim ◽  
Neveen H. Mahmoud ◽  
Walaa A. Moselhy
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Daphnia Magna ◽  
Exposure Time ◽  
Vibrio Fischeri ◽  
The Other ◽  
Metal Mixtures ◽  
Pesticide Mixtures ◽  
Bioluminescence Inhibition ◽  
Organic Pesticides

The present study was conducted to evaluate the sensitivity of the Vibrio fischeri bioluminescence inhibition test (Microtox® assay), and the standard acute Daphnia magna test; using 3 heavy metals, 3 organic pesticides, and their mixtures. In Daphnia tests, either at 24h or 30 min exposure times, the pattern of toxicity order for heavy metals was Cu ˃ Cd ˃ Pb. Chlorpyrifos-methyl was the highest toxic at 24h, while Triazophos was the highest toxic at 30 min exposure times. In the Microtox® test at 5 min exposure time, the estimated EC50 values were 4.20, 4.53 and 6.60 mg/L for Cu, Cd and Pb, respectively. At the same exposure time, the EC50 values of Triazophos, Chlorpyrifos-Me and Profenofos accounted to 1.76, 3.36 and 4.12 mg/L, respectively. Similar order of toxicity was obtained when tests were conducted at 15 min exposure time. The paired mixtures of pesticides, as well as the mixtures of Cu + Cd and Pb + Cd, showed potentiation effects, while the mixture of Cu + Pb showed additive effect against D. magna. The tertiary mixtures of the pesticides or the heavy metals reacted antagonistically. In the Microtox® assay, the heavy metal mixtures reacted antagonistically, while pesticide mixtures showed synergism. It was concluded that both Daphnia and Microtox® tests showed similar pattern of sensitivity to the single toxicants, but dissimilar pattern to the heavy metal mixtures. On the other side, using shorter exposure time (ca. 30 min) with Daphnia bioassay may enable us to held reliable comparisons with Microtox® results.

20 (S)-Ginsenoside-Rh2 and 20 (R)-Ginsenoside-Rh2 Activate IkappaB Phosphorylation Expression in Human Lung Adenocarcinoma A549 Cells

2011 ◽  
Vol 268-270 ◽  
pp. 1205-1210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Dan Qi ◽  
Jin Cai Hou ◽  
Hai Tao Yu ◽  
Chun Jing Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Cell Death ◽  
A549 Cell ◽  
Cell Apoptosis ◽  
Death Rate ◽  
Human Lung ◽  
A549 Cells ◽  
Ginsenoside Rh2 ◽  
Cell Death Rate ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Lung Adenocarcinoma A549

To study the underlying mechanism of 20 (S)-Ginsenoside-Rh2 and 20 (R)-Ginsenoside-Rh2 inducing apoptosis of human lung adenocarcinoma A549 cells. In this study, cell death rate and cell survival rate were obtained using typan blue staining cell viability assay, and transmission electron microscopy was used to detect cell apoptosis. Meanwhile, IkappaB phosphorylation expression was analysed by western blotting. Results showed that after A549 cells were treated with 30 μg/mL 20(S)-Rh2 and 20(R)-Rh2 for 48h, cell death rate increased significantly compared with the control group (P<0.05), and nuclear condensation, fragmentation, karyopycnosis and apoptotic bodies were found under transmission electron microscope. There were no significant changes of IkappaB expression after treated with 20(S)-Rh2 and 20(R)-Rh2 (P>0.05). After treated with 20(R)-Rh2, p-IkappaB expression increased obviously between 4h-6h (P<0.05). After treated with 20(S)-Rh2, p-IkappaB expression increased obviously between 1h-2h (P<0.05), back to normal over time after 3h, increased significantly again between 4h-6h (P<0.05), which indicated the activation of IkappaB participated in A549 cell apoptosis induced by Rh2. These results demonstrated that 20(S)-Rh2 and 20(R)-Rh2 both have the functions of activating I-kappaB/NF-kappaB signaling pathway, thus promoting A549 cell apoptosis.

scholarly journals Potential Phototoxicity of Indocyanine Green in Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells after Angiography under Ambient Illumination

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomohito Sato ◽  
Yoko Karasawa ◽  
Sho Ishikawa ◽  
Manzo Taguchi ◽  
Tadashi Muraoka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Death ◽  
Indocyanine Green ◽  
Death Rate ◽  
Retinal Pigment ◽  
Red Light ◽  
Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells ◽  
Ambient Illumination ◽  
Rpe Cells ◽  
Cell Death Rate ◽  
Icg Angiography

Indocyanine green (ICG) angiography is an indispensable inspection to diagnose and treat for chorioretinal diseases. In this study, we investigated the phototoxicity of ICG on RPE cells at the levels of residual ICG after angiography under ambient light. After incubation of ARPE-19 cells in a colorless medium containing 0 to 10 μg/mL ICG for 24 hours in the dark or under 2000 lx illumination from a fluorescent lamp, cell viability decreased and cell death rate increased in cultures with more than 5.0 μg/mL ICG under illumination. In culture with 10 μg/mL ICG under illumination, morphology of cells changed to be oval and TUNEL- and malondialdehyde-positive cells increased compared to other cultures with ICG in the dark or without ICG under illumination. Furthermore, the level of intracellular reactive oxygen species was also elevated. On the other hand, toxicity of ICG denatured by illumination was not observed. Blocking green to red light overlapping wavelengths of ICG absorbance exhibited decreased cell death rate. The present study indicated that ICG at the estimated intravenous concentrations after ICG angiography induces potential phototoxicity on human RPE cells via oxidative damage under continuous ambient illumination and that the cytotoxicity is reduced by blocking green to red light wavelengths.

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