PRELIMINARY STUDY TO THE PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH OF HL-60 CELL AND BGS 180 CELL INDUCED BY VP-16 / 解放军医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Programmed cell death(PCD)of human leukemic HL 60 cell and human poorly differentiated gastric adenocarcinoma cell BGS 180 induced by efoposid(VP 16) was preliminarily observed comparatively in the same experimental condition through rate of cell death, DNA agarose gels electrophoresis and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase(TdT) mediated biotin 11 dUTP nickend labeling(TUNEL).It was found that apoptosis is the main pattern of HL 60 cell death induced by low does VP 16 in a short time, and it can be suppressed when protein kinase C(PKC) is activated. The main pattern of BGS 180 cell death induced by VP 16 is necrosis, and PCK activation does not affect its necrosis rate. Extracellular Ca 2+ reduction do not affect BGS 180 and HL 60 cell death rate. The mechanism of VP 16 action on BGS 180 and HL 60 cell is different, apoptosis is not the main pattern of cell BGS 180 death induced by VP 16.