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  • 1
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    New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal of Cellular Physiology 108 (1981), S. 195-211 
    ISSN: 0021-9541
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Colchicine and vinblastine inhibited endothelial cell migration but had no effect on the stimulation of replication seen at wound edges in cultures of endothelium at stationary density. This is in contrast to the effects of cyto-chalasins which inhibit both migration and replication at wound edges. Moreover, colchicine and vinblastine stimulated cell replication in the unwounded, confluent monolayer. This effect has kinetics similar to the stimulation of replication at a wound edge and is associated with an initial retraction of cell borders, leaving gaps between cells. Cytochalasin D inhibited the growth response to microtubule disrupting agents but did not prevent cell retraction. Stimulation of replication by microtubule disrupting agents was not dependent on serum but was synergistic with serum in cultures rinsed repeatedly with serum-free medium. The replication occurred prior to any cell loss. When, however, cells were allowed to complete mitosis, about one-half of the daughter cells detached from the monolayer so that there was no increase in cell density. We conclude that microtubule disrupting agents are the first agents found to be effective in stimumating growth of vascular endothelium at saturation density. These data further suggest that colchicine and vinblastine stimulate cell growth in a manner similar to wounding, where cell movement is a prerequisite to cell replication.
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  • 2
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    New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal of Cellular Physiology 111 (1982), S. 247-254 
    ISSN: 0021-9541
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Fibroblast growth and synthesis activities appear to be under exquisite control. This control is mediated in part by substances present in blood plasma or released by other cells. We have studied the role of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBM) activated with phytohemagglutinin-P (PHA) on DNA synthesis, proliferation, and the cell cycle of human diploid fibroblasts. Culture medium from activated but not from unactivated PBM cultures inhibited fibroblast DNA synthesis and growth in a dose-dependent manner. The activity, which was designated as lymphocyte factor (LF), was very potent; it inhibited 50% of the DNA synthesis and cell growth at a dilution of 1:160. It has a molecular weight between 50,000 and 100,000 daltons and it is destroyed by trypsin digestion or by heating at 80°C for 30 minutes. The activity was not due to the presence of prostaglandin. Furthermore, using immunoprecipitation and affinity chromatography, it was shown conclusively to to be distinctly different from alpha lymphotoxin (α-LT). It was not cytotoxic, as shown by the 51chromium release technique. Using flow microfluorimetry it was shown that the activity regulates fibroblast growth by preventing quiescent cells in the G0 or G1 stage of the cell cycle from entering the S phase. Cells already in S at the time of exposure complete DNA Synthesis but cannot divide, and they accumulate in G2. The activity also has marked effects on protein synthesis. Activated mononuclear cells may play a major role in regulating fibroblast growth and synthesis in normally healing wounds and in acute and chronic inflammatory processes.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 0021-9541
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: The specific activity of DNA polymerase (90% alpha) was determined in nine “neoplastoid” cell lines (Martin and Sprague, 1973) and in three different strains of HDF (human diploid fibroblast-like cells), all examined in logarithmic phases of growth. This was compared to the ability of each cell type to “rescue” (reinitiate DNA synthesis in) senescent HDF cells subsequent to polyethylene glycolmediated cell fusions. A sharp “threshold” value of DNA polymerase activity was observed below which reinitiation of DNA synthesis in heterokaryons with senescent HDF does not occur. This threshold was especially obvious when the specific activity of DNA polymerase (p moles dTTP incorporated per mg protein or per cell) was divided by the percent of S-phase cells present in each culture as determined by flow microfluorometry. Our results indicate that the specific activity of DNA polymerase-alpha (or some other factor tightly coregulated with it) in “recessive” cell types (those unable to rescue senescent cells) is only about two times this theoretical “threshold” value, and that fusion of recessive cell types to senescent HDF cells reduces the specific activity in the heterokaryon to below this minimum, thus preventing the cells from entering S phase.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 0021-9541
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: It has previously been shown that serum-deprived, early passage quiescent human diploid fibroblastlike (HDFL) cells are able to inhibit cycling cells from entry into DNA synthesis upon cell fusion. We have found that the degree of inhibition of DNA synthesis in the heterokaryon correlates with the duration of serum deprivation, which is consistent with the suggestion that serum-deprived cells may enter progressively deeper stages of G0 as they increase their time in quiescence. In contrast to fusions with senescent cells, in heterokaryons between serum-deprived early passage and cycling young cells transient inhibition of protein synthesis with cycloheximide or inhibition of RNA synthesis with 5-6-dichloro-1-β-D-ribofuranosyl benzimidazole (DRB) did not stimulate nuclear [3H]-thymidine incorporation. These results suggest that differences may exist in the mechanisms responsible for inhibiting cell cycle progression in senescent vs early passage quiescent HDFL cells.
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  • 5
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    Journal of Cellular Physiology 137 (1988), S. 353-359 
    ISSN: 0021-9541
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Intracellular glutathione (GSH) content and cell density are known to be two important determinants of cell sensitivity to free radicals and radiation. We have investigated intercellular sharing of GSH via metabolic cooperation (MC) by measuring the GSH content of Chinese hamster V79 cells under conditions that varied MC among cells. GSH was measured by flow cytometry with monochlorobimane, which becomes fluorescent after conjugation to GSH by GSH-S-transferase. High-performance liquid chromatography was used to confirm the accuracy of GSH measurements by flow cytometry. Several lines of evidence indicate sharing of GSH or its precursor γ-glutamylcysteine via MC. These include a cell density-dependent heterogeneity in GSH content, reconstitution of GSH in GSH-depleted cells by coculture with nondepleted cells (except when the depleted cells were MC deficient), and decreased equilibration of GSH among GSH-depleted cells and nondepleted cells when an inhibitor of MC (phorbol myristate acetate) was present. The equilibration of GSH among GSH-depleted cells and nondepleted cells in coculture was not inhibitable by acivicin, suggesting that this form of intercellular sharing of GSH does not rely on γ-glutamyltransferase-mediated extracellular transport of GSH.
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  • 6
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    New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal of Cellular Physiology 137 (1988), S. 421-429 
    ISSN: 0021-9541
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Cumene hydroperoxide (Chp), a lipophilic peroxide, and hydroxy-nonenal (HNE), a breakdown product of lipid peroxides, were used as model compounds to assess the effects of lipid peroxidation upon cell proliferation. Amniotic fluid fibroblastlike (AFFL) cells and human diploid skin-derived (HDFL) cells were cultured with the two model compounds and cell proliferation was assayed via bromodeoxyuridine-Hoechst flow cytometry. At low doses Chp elicited an accumulation of cells in the S and G2 phase, while at higher doses the fraction of nonproliferating cells increased as well. Low doses of HNE caused an accumulation of cells in the G1 and G2 phase, whereas an additional increase of cells in S phase and in the nonproliferating fraction was found at an elevated concentration. A delay of onset of proliferation was obtained with both Chp and HNE. Permanent arrests in the S, G2, and G1 compartment are provoked by Chp only when Chp was applied together with serum. HNE, to the contrary, elicited a permanent arrest in the G2 and the G1 compartment even if added to quiescent cell cultures. Additionally, HNE caused a combination of a prolongation of the G1 phase of the cell cycle and an arrest in this compartment, which is reminiscent of cell differentiation. HDFL cells were much more sensitive toward Chp than were AFFL cells, but both cell types showed similar sensitivities toward HNE. We conclude that lipophilic peroxides exert toxic effects upon cell proliferation distinct from the pattern elicited by aldehydic breakdown products of lipid peroxides. The pattern of cell cycle arrest induced by Chp and HNE makes it unlikely that Chp and HNE, or related products of lipid peroxidation, are responsible for the limitation of the proliferative life span of human fibroblasts in culture.
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  • 7
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    Journal of Cellular Physiology 144 (1990), S. 18-25 
    ISSN: 0021-9541
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Human diploid fibroblasts (HDF) were used to study aging-related changes in the proliferative response to platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), epidermal growth factor (EGF), and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I, somatomedin-C) in serum-free, chemically defined culture medium. Cell cycle kinetic parameters were determined by using 5-bromodeoxyuridine incorporation and flow cytometric analysis with the DNA stain Hoechst 33258. This allowed analysis of the growth factor response tobe focussed exclusively upon of the cycling faction of cells within the culture, even in senescent cell cultures which contained predominantly nondividing cells. PDGF and EGF exert their primary effect upon regulation of the proportion of cycling cells in the culture. The doses of PDGF and EGF that produced a half-maximal cycling fraction, analogous to Km, showed no large or consistent difference between young- and old-passage cells. In contrast, IGF-I primarily affects the rate of transition of cells from G1, into S phase, and the dose of IGF-I which produced a half-maximal rate of G1 exit increased up to 130-fold in older-passage cells. Unexpectedly, supraPhysiologic concentrations of IGF-I were found to increase the G1, exit rate of the dividing subpopulation of cells in older-passage cultures to rates higher than those seen in young cultures. In summary, among cells capable of cycling in aging cultures, there were few changes in the regulation of the growth fraction by PDGF and EGF, but there was a greatly increased dependence on IGF-I for regulation of the rate of entry into S phase. The slower growth of the dividing population of cells in aging cultures may be related to a requirement for IGF-I at levels which are greatly above those usually supplied.
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  • 8
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    New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal of Cellular Physiology 163 (1995), S. 555-560 
    ISSN: 0021-9541
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: To study the putative role of de novo synthesis of glutathione (GSH) in the regulation of the cell cycle, we exposed NIH-3T3 cells to buthionine sulfoximine (BSO) and analysed cell cycle kinetics with continuous bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) labeling and bivariate Hoechst 33258/ethidium bromide flow cytometry. Treating quiescent cells, which themselves had a low GSH content, with BSO did not affect subsequent entry into and progression through the cell cycle. Adding BSO during serum stimulation, however, provoked a dose-dependent inhibition of cell growth and a delayed increase in GSH level. The cell kinetic mechanism underlying BSO-induced growth inhibition is a diminished entry into the cell cycle and a permanent arrest in the S and G2 phase of the cell cycle. Our results are consistent with the hypothesis that GSH de novo synthesis is required for cell activation and proper S and G2 phase transit. © 1995 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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  • 9
    ISSN: 0021-9541
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: The growth regulation of human diploid fibroblasts by platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), epidermal growth factor (EGF), insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) (somatomedin C), dexamethasone, and transferrin was investigated in a serumfree, chemically defined culture system. Cell-cycle kinetic parameters were determined using 5′-bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) incorporation and flow cytometric analysis with the DNA-specific dye Hoechst 33258. We found that PDGF and EGF regulate the proportion of cells capable of entering the cell cycle from the quiescent state, with smaller effects upon the rate of cell transition from G1 into S phase. IGF-I, on the other hand, regulates the rate of cell exit from G1 without affecting the cycling fraction. Transferrin and dexamethasone showed less effect upon the cell-cycle kinetics under these culture conditions. The data provide functional evidence that PDGF and EGF regulate similar cell-kinetic parameters in human fibroblast cultures. IGF-I is functionally distinct from both PDGF and EGF in its role of regulating G1 exit rate without affecting the cycling fraction. These observations made by BrdU-Hoechst flow cytometric techniques provide a novel perspective on the regulatory effects exerted by different classes of growth factors, and suggest a mode of interdependence of these mitogens in regulating the net growth rate which could be a feature of growth regulation in vivo. These data also provide a different perspective on the regulation of the growth of fibroblast-like cells than that of the “competence/progression” cell-cycle model.
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  • 10
    ISSN: 0021-9541
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Glutathione (GSH) is important in defense against oxygen free radical damage, in detoxification of xenobiotics, and in mitogenesis. The reducing conditions provided by low molecular weight thiols such as 2-mercaptoethanol (ME) have been shown to promote the growth of lymphocytes in culture. We wished to determine the effects of 2-ME on GSH content, and to determine to what extent GSH status affected lymphocyte proliferation. GSH content was quantitated in human peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) using a flow cytometric assay with monochlorobimane. This analysis was performed on PBL as well as on the CD4+ T-cell subset, as identified with fluorescent anti-CD4 monoclonal antibodies (mAb). Cells were viably sorted on the basis of their GSH content, and incubated for 3 days with mitogenic concentrations of PHA (for PBL) or anti-CD3 mAb (for CD4+ cells) in the presence of bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU). BrdU/Hoechst cell cycle analysis was then performed on these cells. High GSH sorted cells had a higher percentage of cells capable of entering the cell cycle than low GSH sorted cells. This data indicates that some of the heterogeneity in proliferative capacity within PBL in culture is directly or indirectly related to GSH content. Incubation of cells in 2-ME prevented the loss of GSH that occurs when cells are cultured. 2-ME improved the proliferative capacity of unsorted cells, and of cells sorted for high and low GSH. Acridine orange staining of anti-CD3 mAb stimulated cells sorted for high and low GSH indicated that an early event in cell activation was affected by GSH content.
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