The environment assessment of iron and steel using physiological change of mammalian cells

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Essential metals such as zinc and nickel are used for the iron and steel and they may affect on the environment. However, an effective method for evaluating steel has not been established. In this study, we established a simple environmental assessment method for the iron and steel using physiological measurement of mammalian cells. Chinese hamster lung-derived cell, V79, was the most sensitive to concentration change of zinc, nickel and chromium (VI), and V79 was suitable cell for quantitative assessment of the iron and steel. In addition, this method was revealed that corrosion of iron and steel would correlate with the index of proliferation of V79.