{"title":"Membrane oxidative damage and apoptosis in cervical carcinoma cells of patients after radiation therapy.","authors":"S M Bhosle, B N Pandey, N G Huilgol, K P Mishra","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article describes evaluation of plasma membrane fluidity and intracellular SOD with relation to apoptotic death of cervical carcinoma cells after radiation therapy. Cells from biopsies of cancer patients (stage IIIB) prior to and 24 h after radiation dose of 2 Gy were examined. Plasma membrane fluidity, measured by fluorescence polarization of DPH incorporated into lipid bilayer and superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity, determined by epinephrine method, showed significant decrease but per cent apoptotic cells, as determined by annexin-V and TUNEL methods, were found increased by two folds after radiotherapy. It is suggested that decrease in DPH polarization in membrane, reduction in SOD activity and increased apoptosis in cervical cells of cancer patients treated with radiation may be consequent to oxidative damage induced by reactive oxygen species (ROS), which may have implications in developing predictive protocol in cancer radiotherapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":80082,"journal":{"name":"Methods in cell science : an official journal of the Society for In Vitro Biology","volume":"24 1-3","pages":"65-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22444205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High resolution flow cytometric analysis of electronic nuclear volume and DNA content in normal and abnormal human tissue.","authors":"Richard A Thomas, Awtar Krishan, Michael Brochu","doi":"10.1023/a:1024100705728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1024100705728","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The NPE Analyzer flow cytometer can simultaneously analyze the electronic nuclear volume (ENV) and DNA content of cells. This study describes the schematics, resolution, reproducibility, and sensitivity of biological standards analyzed on this unit.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Calibrated beads and biological standards (lymphocytes, trout erythrocytes [TRBC], calf thymocytes, and tumor cells) were analyzed for ENV versus DNA content. Parallel data (forward scatter versus DNA) from a conventional flow cytometer were obtained.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>ENV linearity studies yielded an R value of 0.999. TRBC had a coefficient of variation (CV) of 1.18 +/- 0.13. DNA indexes as low as 1.02 were detectable. DNA content of lymphocytes from 42 females was 1.9% greater than that for 60 males, with a noninstrumental variability in total DNA content of 0.5%. The ENV/DNA ratio was constant in 15 normal human tissue samples, but differed in the four animal species tested. The ENV/DNA ratio for a hypodiploid breast carcinoma was 2.3 times greater than that for normal breast tissue.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The high-resolution ENV versus DNA analyses are highly reliable, sensitive, and can be used for the detection of near-diploid tumor cells that are difficult to identify with conventional cytometers. ENV/DNA ratio may be a useful parameter for detection of aneuploid populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":80082,"journal":{"name":"Methods in cell science : an official journal of the Society for In Vitro Biology","volume":"24 1-3","pages":"11-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1023/a:1024100705728","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22444290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Androgen receptor expression in archival human breast tumors.","authors":"Poonam Arya, Ilia H Andritsch, Awtar Krishan","doi":"10.1023/a:1024137729835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1024137729835","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hormone receptors play a major role in growth and hormonal therapy of breast and prostate tumors. Quantitative results from the ligand binding assays cannot determine heterogeneity in receptor expression nor can they discriminate between expression of the stromal and the tumor cells. Availability of antibodies to hormone receptors has led to the development of immunohistochemistry as a standard method for monitoring of hormone receptor expression under a microscope. However, this method is based on examination of a small number of cells. Laser flow cytometry has been extensively used for monitoring of receptor expression in human liquid tumors. As most of the hormone receptor expression is nuclear, we have developed methods for flow cytometric analysis of receptor expression in nuclei isolated from enzyme treated paraffin sections. The present report based on gated analysis of androgen receptor expression in nuclei isolated from archival formalin fixed/paraffin embedded breast tumors shows that receptor expression in aneuploid sub-populations is greater than that of the diploid cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":80082,"journal":{"name":"Methods in cell science : an official journal of the Society for In Vitro Biology","volume":"24 1-3","pages":"61-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1023/a:1024137729835","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22444204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Host-pathogen interactions: leukocyte phagocytosis and associated sequelae.","authors":"Jovanka M Voyich, Frank R DeLeo","doi":"10.1023/a:1024154200702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1024154200702","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) are a critical component of the human innate immune response and are the first line of defense against invading microorganisms. Phagocytosis of invading microbes induces production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) by PMNs, which facilitates bactericidal activity. In addition to eliminating microorganisms, phagocytosis also accelerates PMN apoptosis, a process critical for resolution of inflammation. Inasmuch as leukocyte phagocytosis and ROS production are key components of the innate immune response, we developed flow cytometric methods to evaluate these processes in human PMNs. In contrast to traditional microscopy-based analyses, the methods described herein provide objective and high throughput measures of host cell-pathogen interactions. Importantly, they can be adapted for use with a number of fluorometric probes, and bacterium and host cell of choice, and each is based upon a common phagocytosis assay system. We also describe methods to measure phagocytosis-induced PMN apoptosis with this assay system. These methods entail detecting surface-exposed phosphatidylserine (early apoptosis), and measuring PMN chromatin condensation and DNA fragmentation (late apoptosis). Taken together, these assays provide rapid and accurate assessment of critical PMN processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":80082,"journal":{"name":"Methods in cell science : an official journal of the Society for In Vitro Biology","volume":"24 1-3","pages":"79-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1023/a:1024154200702","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22444712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A simple flow-through micro-chamber for handling fragile, small tissue explants and single non-adherent cells.","authors":"Peter Hausen, Metta Riebesell","doi":"10.1023/a:1024445010789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1024445010789","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The flow-through chambers described are easily assembled in the laboratory with no need for sophisticated or expensive equipment. They allow for treating micro-explants or single non-adhesive cells with different solutes for defined times by easy and quick changes of the medium in the chambers. The specimen can be fixed, immunostained and observed microscopically within the chamber. During these procedures the cells are not exposed to undue mechanical stress and fragile intercellular structures are well preserved.</p>","PeriodicalId":80082,"journal":{"name":"Methods in cell science : an official journal of the Society for In Vitro Biology","volume":"24 4","pages":"165-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1023/a:1024445010789","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22470018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Androgen receptor expression in archival human breast tumors.","authors":"Poonam Arya, I. Andritsch, A. Krishan","doi":"10.1007/978-94-017-0623-0_9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0623-0_9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80082,"journal":{"name":"Methods in cell science : an official journal of the Society for In Vitro Biology","volume":"319 1","pages":"61-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78297643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chromosome sorting and genomics.","authors":"L Scott Cram, Carolyn S Bell, John J Fawcett","doi":"10.1023/a:1024108923475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1024108923475","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80082,"journal":{"name":"Methods in cell science : an official journal of the Society for In Vitro Biology","volume":"24 1-3","pages":"27-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1023/a:1024108923475","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22444199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flow cytometric monitoring of drug resistance in human tumor cells.","authors":"Awtar Krishan","doi":"10.1023/a:1024185612997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1024185612997","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent studies have identified a family of glycoproteins which modulate cellular transport of antibiotics, alkaloids and drugs used in cancer chemotherapy. By facilitating efflux of drugs from the intracellular domain, these proteins reduce cytotoxicity and thus confer drug resistance. With the availability of antibodies raised against these phenotypic markers of drug resistance, immunohistochemistry and flow cytometry has been used to study their distribution and expression in normal and tumor cells. As some of the drugs used in cancer chemotherapy and other dyes which are substrates for this efflux pump are fluorescent, laser flow cytometry can be used for rapid quantitation of cellular retention, efflux and heterogeneity in drug transport of a tumor cell population. This method can also be used to screen drugs which may block efflux of a chemotherapeutic drug and thus increase chemosensitivity of a drug resistant tumor. In the present report flow cytometric methods for the study of drug transport and its modulation in tumor cells are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":80082,"journal":{"name":"Methods in cell science : an official journal of the Society for In Vitro Biology","volume":"24 1-3","pages":"55-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1023/a:1024185612997","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22444203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flowcytometric detection of PNH defect and response to therapy in aplastic anemia patients.","authors":"Neelam Varma, Subhash Varma, Harpreet Vohra, Kiran Malik, Gurjeevan Garewal","doi":"10.1023/a:1024150032561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1024150032561","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80082,"journal":{"name":"Methods in cell science : an official journal of the Society for In Vitro Biology","volume":"24 1-3","pages":"77-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1023/a:1024150032561","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22444711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flow cytometric techniques for the detection of microorganisms.","authors":"Hazel M Davey","doi":"10.1023/a:1024106317540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1024106317540","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Flow cytometry (FCM) is a technique, which allows one to analyse cells rapidly and individually, and permits the quantitative analysis of distributions of a property or properties in a population. It therefore offers many advantages over conventional measurements for the analysis of biological cells. Historically the technique has been widely applied for the study of mammalian cells, but its use in microbiology has been more limited; this is mainly a consequence of the smaller size of microbes, which results in the smaller optical signals that can be obtained from them. Developments in light sources and optics, together with brighter, spectrally-diverse dyes have reduced this barrier over recent years and the flow cytometer is now an essential tool in many microbiological research establishments. FCM has an increasing role to play in the detection of microbes in both industrial and clinical settings. Environmental monitoring to prevent outbreaks of human diseases such as cryptosporidiosis and Legionnaires' disease and to detect acts of biowarfare or bioterrorism are all amenable to flow cytometric study. This review seeks to highlight the role of the flow cytometer in the detection of microbial cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":80082,"journal":{"name":"Methods in cell science : an official journal of the Society for In Vitro Biology","volume":"24 1-3","pages":"91-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1023/a:1024106317540","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22444713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}