Determination of cell/medium interfacial tensions from contact angles in aqueous polymer systems.
Determination of cell/medium interfacial tensions from contact angles in aqueous polymer systems.
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根据水性聚合物体系中的接触角测定细胞/介质界面张力。
DOI:
10.1016/0005-2736(81)90480-6
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发表时间:
1981
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D. McIver
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作者:
S. Schürch;D. Gerson;D. McIver
The contact angles on cell layers of a series of polymeric droplets from aqueous two-phase systems of dextran and poly (ethylene glycol) have been used to determine the critical or limiting interfacial tension for spreading on the cell layers. Test droplets of the denser dextran-rich phase were formed in the lighter poly (ethylene glycol)-rich phase. The interfacial tensions, γ, between the phases were determined with the pendant drop method, and a linear relationship was found between γ− 1 2 and the cosine of the angle the droplets made with the cell layers (Good-Girifalco plot). We were thus able to determine the limiting or critical interfacial tension, γ c, for spreading on the cell layers. The value of γ c is a measure of the interfacial energy of the cell/bathing medium interface. Values of γ c obtained by this method include the following: 0.65 and 0.84 μN· m− 1 for human erythrocytes and neutrophils, respectively; 0.93 μN· m− 1 for porcine pulmonary macrophages; 0.75–3.60 μN· m− 1 for various transformed murine lymphoid cell lines, and 2.53 μN· m− 1 for Balb/c murine spleen lymphocytes. Exposure to various agents has differing effects on γ c. Concanavalin A reduces γ c, and bacterial lipopolysaccharide increases γ c of murine spleen lymphocytes. The calcium ionophore, A23187, increases γ c of both porcine pulmonary macrophages and murine spleen lymphocytes. This new method provides a quantitative approach to the cell surface energy and hydrophobicity which are thought to play an important role in membrane-mediated phenomena and in cell adhesion.