The contribution of apoptosis and necrosis in freezing injury of sea urchin embryonic cells.

Autor: Boroda AV; Laboratory of Cytotechnology, A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, The Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690041, Russia., Kipryushina YO; Laboratory of Cytotechnology, A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, The Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690041, Russia., Yakovlev KV; Laboratory of Cytotechnology, A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, The Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690041, Russia., Odintsova NA; Laboratory of Cytotechnology, A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, The Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690041, Russia. Electronic address: nelodin54@gmail.ru.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Cryobiology [Cryobiology] 2016 Aug; Vol. 73 (1), pp. 7-14. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Jun 27.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2016.06.007
Abstrakt: Sea urchins have recently been reported to be a promising tool for investigations of oxidative stress, UV light perturbations and senescence. However, few available data describe the pathway of cell death that occurs in sea urchin embryonic cells after cryopreservation. Our study is focused on the morphological and functional alterations that occur in cells of these animals during the induction of different cell death pathways in response to cold injury. To estimate the effect of cryopreservation on sea urchin cell cultures and identify the involved cell death pathways, we analyzed cell viability (via trypan blue exclusion test, MTT assay and DAPI staining), caspase activity (via flow cytometry and spectrophotometry), the level of apoptosis (via annexin V-FITC staining), and cell ultrastructure alterations (via transmission electron microscopy). Using general caspase detection, we found that the level of caspase activity was low in unfrozen control cells, whereas the number of apoptotic cells with activated caspases rose after freezing-thawing depending on cryoprotectants used, also as the number of dead cells and cells in a late apoptosis. The data using annexin V-binding assay revealed a very high apoptosis level in all tested samples, even in unfrozen cells (about 66%). Thus, annexin V assay appears to be unsuitable for sea urchin embryonic cells. Typical necrotic cells with damaged mitochondria were not detected after freezing in sea urchin cell cultures. Our results assume that physical cell disruption but not freezing-induced apoptosis or necrosis is the predominant reason of cell death in sea urchin cultures after freezing-thawing with any cryoprotectant combination.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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