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Flow Cytometric Analysis on Tri-N-Butyltin-Induced Increase in Annexin V Binding to Membranes of Rat Thymocytes

Flow Cytometric Analysis on Tri-N-Butyltin-Induced Increase in Annexin V Binding to Membranes of Rat Thymocytes

M Nakata, Y Oyama, Y Okada, Y Yamazaki, L Chikahisa, M Satoh

Environ Toxicol Pharmacol. 1999 Oct;7(4):267-73.

PMID: 21781935

Abstract:

Effects of tri-n-butyltin chloride (TBT) on rat thymocytes were examined by using a flow cytometer and three fluorescent dyes (annexin V-FITC, ethidium bromide and fluo-3-AM) to further characterize its cytotoxic action. TBT at concentrations of 100 nM or greater, time- and dose-dependently increased the population of annexin V-positive live cells in the cell suspension. Most of cells became to be annexin V-positive within 60 min after the start of application of 300 nM TBT. Some of annexin V-positive live cells were further stained with ethidium, indicating that some of the cells were killed, in continued presence of TBT at 300 nM or greater. When the cells were exposed to 300 nM TBT only for 15 min, the population of annexin V-positive live cells increased after removal of TBT from incubation medium. TBT-induced increase in the population of annexin V-positive live cells was partly attenuated under Ca(2+)-free condition, although that was not the case for the dead cells. TBT at 30 nM or greater increased [Ca(2+)]i in a dose-dependent manner. Triethyltin and trimethyltin even at 1 μM did not increase the [Ca(2+)]i and the population of annexin V-positive live cells. The population of annexin V-positive live cells increased as the [Ca(2+)]i was increased by ionomycin, a calcium ionophore. Results suggest an involvement of Ca(2+) in some of TBT-induced cytotoxicity.

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