In vitro assessment of the impact of nickel on the viability and steroidogenesis in the human adrenocortical carcinoma (NCI-H295R) cell line

Title:

In vitro assessment of the impact of nickel on the viability and steroidogenesis in the human adrenocortical carcinoma (NCI-H295R) cell line

Creator:

Lukáč, Norbert, Forgacs, Zsolt, Duranova, Hana, Jambor, Tomáš, Zemanova, Jiřina, Massányi, Peter, Tombarkiewicz, Barbara, Roychoudhury, Shubhadeep, and Knazicka, Zuzana

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:2ccbccc1-0c1e-4736-afc4-fedd8290ca91
uuid:2ccbccc1-0c1e-4736-afc4-fedd8290ca91
issn:0862-8408
doi:10.33549/physiolres.934452

Subject:

fyziologie, physiology, endocrine disruption, nickel chloride, sexual steroid hormones, cell viability, NCI-H295R cell line, 14, and 612

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

počítač and online zdroj

Description:

Nickel is a ubiquitous environmental pollutant, which has various effects on reproductive endocrinology. In this study, human adrenocortical carcinoma (NCI-H295R) cell line was used as an in vitro biological model to study the effect of nickel chloride (NiCl2) on the viability and steroidogenesis. The cells were exposed to different concentrations (3.90; 7.80; 15.60; 31.20; 62.50; 125; 250 and 500 μM) of NiCl2 and compared with control group (culture medium without NiCl2). The cell viability was measured by the metabolic activity assay. Production of sexual steroid hormones was quantified by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay. Following 48 h culture of the cells in the presence of NiCl2 a dose-dependent depletion of progesterone release was observed even at the lower concentrations. In fact, lower levels of progesterone were detected in groups with higher doses (≥125 μM) of NiCl2 (P<0.01), which also elicited cytotoxic action. A more prominent decrease in testosterone production (P<0.01) was also noted in comparison to that of progesterone. On the other hand, the release of 17β-estradiol was substantially increased at low concentrations (3.90 to 62.50 μM) of NiCl2. The cell viability remained relatively unaltered up to 125 μM (P>0.05) and slightly decreased from 250 μM of NiCl2 (P<0.05). Our results indicate endocrine disruptive effect of NiCl2 on the release of progesterone and testosterone in the NCI-H295R cell line. Although no detrimental effect of NiCl2 (≤62.50 μM) could be found on 17β-estradiol production, its toxicity may reflect at other points of the steroidogenic pathway., Norbert Lukac, Zsolt Forgacs, Hana Duranova, Tomas Jambor, Jirina Zemanova, Peter Massanyi, Barbara Tombarkiewicz, Shubhadeep Roychoudhury, Zuzana Knazicka., and Obsahuje bibliografii

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

871-883

Source:

Physiological research | 2020 Volume:69 | Number:5

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