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  • Title: Diosgenin dose-dependent apoptosis and differentiation induction in human erythroleukemia cell line and sedimentation field-flow fractionation monitoring.
    Author: Léger DY, Liagre B, Cardot PJ, Beneytout JL, Battu S.
    Journal: Anal Biochem; 2004 Dec 15; 335(2):267-78. PubMed ID: 15556566.
    Abstract:
    To limit or stop cancer spreading, one of the most prevalent strategies is to induce cancer cell death. Differentiation therapy and apoptosis induction are two ways to achieve this goal. Sedimentation field-flow fractionation (SdFFF) has been described as an effective tool for cell separation, respecting integrity and viability. Because SdFFF takes advantage of intrinsic properties of eluted cells (size, density, shape), we studied the capacity of SdFFF to monitor specific biophysical modifications that occurred during cellular apoptosis or differentiation induction. Then, we used, as an in vitro cellular model of apoptosis and differentiation, diosgenin dose-dependent induction in the polyvalent human erythroleukemia cell line. Two other chemicals were used: phorbol myristate acetate (differentiation inducer) and staurosporine (apoptosis inducer). Our results demonstrated a correlation between SdFFF elution profile changes and induction of effective biological processes. Thus, after acquisition of a reference profile, SdFFF could be used alone to follow chemically induced biological events, suggesting many different applications such as testing series of molecules, evaluation of new cellular/biological models used in different life science fields, or sorting purified populations with the aim of better understanding mechanisms of induced cellular events.
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