Metal toxicity for rabbit alveolar macrophages in vitro.
Metal toxicity for rabbit alveolar macrophages in vitro.
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体外金属对兔肺泡巨噬细胞的毒性。
DOI:
10.1016/0013-9351(75)90047-x
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发表时间:
1975
影响因子:
8.3
通讯作者:
D. Coffin
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文献类型:
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作者:
M. Waters;D. Gardner;C. Aranyi;D. Coffin
A model systemin vitrohas been employed to assess the relative cytotoxic properties of soluble salts of metals that occur as environmental contaminants. Rabbit alveolar macrophages obtained by lung lavage were exposed in tissue culture for 20 hours to chlorides of Cd2+, Ni2+, Mn2+, and Cr3+and to ammonium vanadate (VO3−). All metals except Cd2+produced significant decreases in numbers of cells at concentrations that affected cell viability. Cd2+was unique in decreasing cell viability without causing cell lysis. In comparing the relative cytotoxicity of the various metals, the number of viable cells remaining after 20 hours was expressed as a percent of the total number of cells in control cultures at 20 hours. Thus, the net number of viable cells was decreased to 50% of control at concentrations of 0.1 mmCd2+and VO3−or 4–5 mmNi2+, Mn2+, and Cr3+. The specific activity of acid phosphatase, a lysosomal indicator enzyme, was also decreased at similar concentrations. Using scanning electron microscopy it was possible to correlate surface alterations with exposure concentrations and cell viabilities so as to suggest a mode and sequence of cell injury which may ultimately lead to cell death.