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TOXICOLOGY IN VITRO
Volume 46, Issue -, Pages 9-18Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tiv.2017.09.024
Keywords
Lanthanum; Cerium; Human cell lines; Toxicity; Cell growth
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- Italian Ministry of Health [Ricerca Corrente] [22RC12]
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Human HT-29 and HepG2 cell lines were employed to test the effects of increasing concentrations of two rare earth elements (REEs), namely cerium (Ce) and lanthanum (La), alone or in combination. Effects on cell proliferation were measured using MTT assay, luciferase-based assays and proliferating cell nuclear antigen expression, while cell mortality and type of cell death was determined by Annexin V-FTC test using flow cytometry. Modulation of 84 genes involved in oxidative stress pathways was also studied using RT-PCR based arrays. Major alterations in selected genes compared to basal expression levels of respective control groups were found in the cells exposed to 600 mu M Ce for 48 h. In HepG2 cells, 51 out of 84 genes were significanfly up-or down-regulated, while in HT-29 cells only 16 genes were significantly up-or down-regulated. Dosage of REEs seems to be the pivotal factor for switching the biological effects from down-to up-regulation of cell growth; thus, low concentrations promoted cell survival and proliferation, but when concentrations increased, REEs exerted antiproliferative and cytostatic/cytotoxic effects. The molecular mechanisms underlying these effects are still not well-defined and further analysis of the mechanisms that result in inhibition or induction of cell proliferation are crucially important.
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