Channeling frozen cells to survival after thawing: opening the door to cryo-physiology.
Channeling frozen cells to survival after thawing: opening the door to cryo-physiology.
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引导冷冻细胞解冻后存活:打开冷冻生理学之门。
DOI:
10.1113/jp271842
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发表时间:
2016
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Y. Okada
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Matsumoto M;Hiyama TY;Kuboyama K;Suzuki R;Fujikawa A;Noda M.;Y. Okada
Cryo-preservation is used for the long term storage of cells, including sperm and oocytes, and organs (eg cornea, kidney, liver, lung and heart) for transplant at ultra low temperatures. While cell and tissue death are known to result mainly from intracellular and extracellular ice crystal formation, osmotic stress and electrolyte disturbance, the nature of the primary damage suffered by cells and tissues during thawing is unclear. Since it is well known that cells undergo shrinkage, that is, dehydration, during freezing (Dong et al. 2010), rehydration upon thawing is necessary to restore the original cell volume and thus ensure the vitality of the recovered cells and tissues. Recovery of cell volume after ‘osmotic volume decrease’(OVD) induced by hypertonic stress is called the ‘regulatory volume increase’(RVI) and is achieved by water inflow driven by Na+ influx through the ‘hypertonicity-induced cation channels’(HICCs)(Wehner et al. 2003), as schematically depicted in Fig. 1 (right scheme). However, the physiological mechanism of rewarming-induced rehydration after the ‘freezing volume decrease’(FVD) was previously unknown. In the current issue of The Journal of Physiology, Christmann et al.(2016) demonstrate that HICCs are involved in RVI after FVD through a mechanism sensitive to the peptide hormone arginine vasopressin (AVP).In the temperature range of− 5 to− 15 C, ice forms in the extracellular solution, while the intracellular solution remains unfrozen even below the freezing point, called ‘supercooled’, especially in the presence of cryoprotectants (such as DMSO and glycerol). The chemical potential for water (μw) or the activity of water (aw) is thus increased within cells and decreased in the external medium containing pieces of ice, so water flows out of the cells (Mazur, 1984) leading to a passive FVD, similar to the case of OVD (Fig. 1, left upper scheme). Slight reductions in the cell size