Impact of amphiphilic compounds on post-hypertonic shock of human erythrocytes

When the cryopreserved erythrocytes are thawed, with the ice melting the extracellular hypertonic medium changes to isotonic one, resulting in post-hypertonic cell lysis development. Under experimental conditions, the post-hypertonic shock of erythrocytes simulates the influence of cryodamage factors, acting at the erythrocyte thawing stage, as well as when the cells, cryopreserved under protection of penetrating cryoprotectant are transferred into bloodstream. Post-hypertonic shock of erythrocytes was carried out by transferring the cells from a hypertonic solution contained 1.65 mol/l NaCl (dehydration medium) into an isotonic one with 0.15 mol/l NaCl (rehydration medium) at 0ºС. The effect of specimens of various classes of amphiphilic compounds (anionic sodium decyl sulfate, non-ionic decyl-β,D-glucopyranoside, and cationic chlorpromazine) on the human erythrocyte sensitivity to post-hypertonic shock, was studied. Amphiphilic substances were supplemented into rehydration medium prior to cell introduction into it. It was shown that under post-hypertonic shock of erythrocytes, all the studied amphiphilic substances, when used in efficient concentrations, manifested a high anti-hemolytic activity (at the level of 70%). A comparative study of the efficiency of amphiphilic substances under post-hypertonic shock of erythrocytes showed differences in size of the plateau (the concentration range of amphiphilic compound, within the limits of which the minimum level of erythrocyte hemolysis was observed). Thus, it was found that for non-ionic decyl-β,D-glucopyranoside the plateau was 3 times more than for anionic sodium decyl sulfate and cationic chlorpromazine. The minimum efficient concentration for sodium decyl sulfate and the maximum one for decyl-β,D-glucopyranoside under post-hypertonic shock of erythrocytes were revealed. It is assumed that the revealed protective effect of amphiphilic compounds under post-hypertonic shock of erythrocytes is associated with their capability to integrate into membrane. This entails an increase in the surface area of the membrane and, therefore, the critical hemolytic volume of cell, which allows it to swell to a larger volume.

THE EFFECT OF SURFACTANTS ON THE CHEMILUMINESCENT REACTION OF LUMINOL WITH HYDROGEN PEROXIDE

The luminol-hydrogen peroxide chemiluminescent system is widely used for the creation of diagnostic systems, for chemical analysis, for studying the kinetics and mechanisms of chemical reactions, for the creation of special and emergency light sources, and for monitoring living systems. However, the use of the luminol-hydrogen peroxide chemiluminescent system is limited by the fact that there are almost no ways of managing the reaction. The introduction of organized molecular systems into the luminol-hydrogen peroxide chemiluminescent system can create an additional channel for controlling chemiluminescent reactions. The luminol-hydrogen peroxide system was not previously studied in various classes of hydrocarbon and perfluorinated micellar solutions. This work was the first to study the effect of cationic, anionic and nonionic hydrocarbon surface-active substances (cetyltrimethylammonium bromide, sodium decyl sulfate, sodium dodecyl sulfate, triton X 100) and perfluorinated surface-active substances (FT-135 and FT-248) on the chemiluminescent systems luminol-hydrogen peroxide-potassium hexacyanoferrate(III) and luminol-hydrogen peroxide-copper(II) sulphate. The systems retain the ability to chemiluminescence in the presence of a surfactant. Cationic surfactants lower the intensity of chemiluminescence, and anionic surfactants increase the intensity of chemiluminescence. The introduction of a surfactant into the system allows increasing the range of dependence of the chemiluminescence intensity on the catalyst concentration. Kinetic curves of the growth and decay of chemiluminescence were measured in the systems. The rate constants of the chemiluminescence decay were measured in the framework of the first-order kinetics model.