A novel fluorescence chamber for the determination of volume changes in human CaSki cell cultures attached on filters.
A novel fluorescence chamber for the determination of volume changes in human CaSki cell cultures attached on filters.
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一种新型荧光室,用于测定附着在过滤器上的人类 CaSki 细胞培养物的体积变化。
DOI:
10.1007/bf02737900
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发表时间:
1998
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Whittembury,J
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Gorodeski,GI;Whittembury,J
The objective of the study was to test the hypothesis that, in the cultured human cervical epithelium, CaSki, the effect of calcium mobilizing agents on transepithelial electrical conductance (GTE), is the result of cell volume decrease. CaSki cells attached on filters were loaded with fura-2, and measurements of fluorescence at the isosbestic wavelength 360 nm (excitation/emission [F360/510]) were made in a newly designed fluorescence chamber; this design allowed us also to determine changes in cytosolic calcium ([Ca2+]i). The experimental conditions were similar to those used to measure changes in paracellular permeability in the Ussing chamber, and they enabled us to compare the time-course of changes in [Ca2+]i, in F360/510, and in GTE. Hypertonicity increased, and hypotonicity decreased F360/510and GTE, without having an effect on [Ca2+]i, and the changes in F360/510and in GTEcorrelated linearly. Metabolism, bleaching, and extrusion of intracellular fura-2 were minimal, indicating that the changes in F360/510reflect changes in dye concentration. Hypertonicity decreased, and hypotonicity increased the size of dispersed CaSki cells, suggesting that osmolarity-induced changes in F360/510reflect changes in size of the attached cells. Ionomycin increased [Ca2+]i, F360/510, and GTE, but the increases in [Ca2+]ipreceded those in F360/510and GTE. The calcium chelator BAPTA blocked the ionomycin-induced increase in [Ca2+]i, F360/510, and in GTE. Preincubation with 4-acetamido-4′isothiocyanatostilbene-2,2′disulfonic acid (SITS) augmented the ionomycin-induced increase in [Ca2+]i, but blocked the increases in F360/510and in GTE. Pretreatment of cells with hypertonic solution abrogated the increases in F360/510and in GTEin response to ionomycin, but had little effect on the ionomycin-induced increase in [Ca2+]i. On the basis of these results we suggest that the ionomycin-induced increase in GTEis mediated by [Ca2+]i-dependent chloride secretion and osmotic water loss.