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ID 76979
Author
Endo, Yosuke Division of Environmental Symbiosis Studies, Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokushima
Han, Zhe-Hao Division of Environmental Symbiosis Studies, Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokushima
Kurochi, Jun Division of Environmental Symbiosis Studies, Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokushima
Sakata, Masahiro Division of Environmental Symbiosis Studies, Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokushima
Maetaka, Akinori Division of Environmental Symbiosis Studies, Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokushima
Yonezawa, Takayasu Division of Environmental Symbiosis Studies, Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokushima
Koizumi, Kazuki Division of Environmental Symbiosis Studies, Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokushima
Oyama, Yasuo Division of Environmental Symbiosis Studies, Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokushima KAKEN Search Researchers
Keywords
Zinc-pyrithione
Cytotoxicity
K562 cells
Content Type
Departmental Bulletin Paper
Description
Zinc-pyrithione is widely used as a topical agent. It may be likely that zinc-pyrithione possesses unique cytotoxic action because zinc exerts diverse actions on process of cell death. In this study, we examined the cytotoxicity of zinc-pyrithione on human leukemia K562 cells in order to examine the possibility of hormetic action. Zinc-pyrithione at concentrations ranging from 0.3 μM to 3 μM induced diverse actions on K562 cells. The agent at 0.3 and 1 μM significantly inhibited spontaneous occurrence of cell death during 72 h incubation while it was not the case for 3 μM. Significant decrease in population of shrunken cells was observed when the concentrations of zinc-pyrithione were 0.3 and 1 μM. Cell growth was significantly inhibited by 1 and 3 μM zinc-pyrithione, but not by 0.3 μM. Although the inhibition of cell growth by zinc-pyrithione was concentration-dependent, the inhibition of spontaneous cell death was observed only at lower concentrations (0.3 and 1 μM) of zinc-pyrithione. Results suggest that zinc-pyrithione possesses diverse actions, including hormetic action, on proliferative cells.
Journal Title
徳島大学総合科学部自然科学研究 = Natural Science Research, The University of Tokushima
ISSN
09146385
NCID
AN10065859
Volume
25
Issue
3
Start Page
15
End Page
19
Sort Key
15
Published Date
2011
EDB ID
FullText File
language
eng
departments
Bioscience and Bioindustry