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Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand) ; 47(3): 403-10, 2001 May.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11441945

ABSTRACT

UNLABELLED: Thyroid cancer markedly increased in children exposed to iodine radioisotopes following the Chernobyl accident. This increase exceeded predictions based on dose estimates to the whole organ. We sought to investigate whether iodine deficiency may have influenced the pattern of microscopic distribution of radioiodines, which may be important to interpretation of the observed effects. Iodine-deficient new-born rats were injected with iodine-129 (129I) and the microscopic distribution in the thyroid tissue was studied at 24 hr and at one week after administration, using secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS). Twenty-four hr after administration, SIMS images showed large differences in 129I uptake among thyroid follicles, with more than a factor ten variation in the local concentration. In addition, the distribution of 129I inside follicles varied with time. At 24 hr, the highest concentration was found at the periphery of the colloid, close to the thyroid cells. There also was enhanced concentration of 129I at one pole of follicles. Distribution inside follicles was homogeneous at 7 days. CONCLUSIONS: 1/Dosimetric models, which assume uniform iodine uptake by thyroid follicles, give an oversimplified picture of radiation dosimetry in cases involving iodine deficiency, which induces patchy tissue irradiation. 2/The dynamic pattern of iodine distribution within thyroid follicles suggests that decay events from short-lived iodines will occur closer to thyroid cells than events resulting from iodine-131.


Subject(s)
Iodine Radioisotopes/metabolism , Iodine/deficiency , Iodine/metabolism , Thyroid Gland/diagnostic imaging , Thyroid Gland/metabolism , Animals , Animals, Newborn , Diet , Female , Imaging, Three-Dimensional , Radiation Injuries/metabolism , Radioactive Hazard Release , Radionuclide Imaging , Rats , Rats, Wistar , Spectrometry, Mass, Secondary Ion , Thyroid Gland/cytology , Thyroid Gland/pathology
2.
Chromosome Res ; 4(8): 574-82, 1996 Dec.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-9024974

ABSTRACT

We investigated the possibilities of using scanning ion analytical microscopy (SIAM) to detect bromine in human metaphase chromosomes. The experiments were performed after incorporation of the thymidine analogue, 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdU), into the DNA or by in situ hybridization of a BrdU-labelled probe for the subcentromeric repeated DNA sequences. The possibilities offered by this microanalytical method were compared with immunofluorescent staining techniques. Well-defined maps of bands containing bromide were obtained with metaphase chromosomes that had incorporated BrdU during the late S-phase. Their patterns were similar to the labelling obtained by immunofluorescence. In addition, SIAM reveals the presence of bromine within constitutive heterochromatic regions in which BrdU is poorly detected by immunofluorescence. The comparison of the 12C14N, 31P and 81Br maps of controls and fluorescence plus Giemsa (FPG) metaphase chromosomes shows the loss of bromide from DNA during this treatment. SIAM emerges as a new powerful microanalytical technology for investigating chromosome structure further.


Subject(s)
Bromodeoxyuridine/analysis , Chromosomes/chemistry , Microscopy/methods , Bromine/analysis , Cells, Cultured , DNA/chemistry , Fluorescent Antibody Technique , Humans , In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence , Lymphocytes , Mass Spectrometry/methods , Metaphase , Reproducibility of Results , Sensitivity and Specificity
3.
Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand) ; 42(3): 335-42, 1996 May.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-8793188

ABSTRACT

Tris-hydroxymethyl-amino-methane telomers bearing a fluorinated end have recently been proposed as potential drug carriers. Using ion microscopy, we have investigated the cell uptake and subcellular distribution of a perfluorinated telomere, called F-TAC, in two cell lines, malignant murine B16 melanoma and normal rat skin fibroblasts. Single layer cell cultures on gold plates were incubated with F-TAC at different concentrations. Ion microscopy using mass spectrometry enabled the detection of Fluorine 19 atoms entering into F-TAC constitution. This microanalytical study showed an elective cytoplasmic localization of the molecule, wherein the distribution is relatively homogeneous. Within same culture and incubation conditions, intercellular variations in F-TAC content were very low. In the malignant line, the intracellular concentration remains practically identical when increasing F-TAC concentration in the culture medium above 0.2 mg/ml, indicating that the uptake phenomenon is saturable. In conclusion, the F-TAC telomer easily crosses the plasma membrane, however, it has difficulties in crossing the nuclear membrane. It is likely that intracellular penetration is essentially due to rapid endocytosis of the telomer.


Subject(s)
Cell Compartmentation , Hydrocarbons, Fluorinated/isolation & purification , Melanoma, Experimental/ultrastructure , Skin/ultrastructure , Spectrometry, Mass, Secondary Ion/methods , Animals , Biological Transport , Drug Carriers , Fibroblasts , Hydrocarbons, Fluorinated/metabolism , Melanoma, Experimental/metabolism , Rats , Rats, Sprague-Dawley , Skin/cytology , Skin/metabolism
4.
Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand) ; 41(2): 265-70, 1995 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-7787736

ABSTRACT

The effects of selenium and silver salts was studied by scanning ionic microscopy during experimental argyria mapping of the different basement membrane elements. The ionic microscope (IMS 4F) was equipped with a high resolution spectrometer giving high spatial resolution on the image obtained. After long-term treatment with silver salt alone, silver and sulphur deposits were observed in the membranes. After administration of selenium and silver salt, it was possible to map nitrogen, sulphur, selenium and silver to the glomerular basement membrane as well as to the wall of the kidney arterioles. In the latter, sulphur, selenium and silver were localized only in the elastic laminae of the walls. This process of precipitation of silver deposits in the membrane can be interpreted as process of selenium "detoxification" of the organism.


Subject(s)
Arterioles/ultrastructure , Kidney/ultrastructure , Selenium Compounds/pharmacology , Silver Nitrate/pharmacology , Animals , Arterioles/drug effects , Basement Membrane/drug effects , Basement Membrane/ultrastructure , Drug Interactions , Electron Probe Microanalysis/methods , Kidney/blood supply , Kidney/drug effects , Kidney Glomerulus/blood supply , Kidney Glomerulus/drug effects , Kidney Glomerulus/ultrastructure , Male , Rats , Rats, Wistar , Selenium Oxides
5.
Biol Cell ; 81(1): 65-72, 1994.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-7987243

ABSTRACT

The intra-cellular distribution of eight halogen glucocorticoids was investigated by ion microscopy in two cellular varieties of cultured non-cancer cells (fibroblast 3T3) and cancer cells (human breast tumor cells MCF-7). Two types of ion microscopy helped to determine this distribution, a direct imaging ion microscope (SMI 300) with low spatial resolution, and a scanning ion microscope (IMS4F), featuring high resolution, serving to obtain maps representing the intra-cellular distribution of the fluorine elements and drugs present in these monolayer cultured cells. The fluorine images representative of the drugs containing fluorine showed that these drugs are essentially concentrated in the cell nuclei. In these nuclei, the distribution of these drugs is different from that of heterochromatin and of the nucleolus.


Subject(s)
Cell Nucleus/metabolism , Fluorine/analysis , Glucocorticoids/metabolism , Microscopy, Electron, Scanning/methods , Steroids, Fluorinated/metabolism , Triamcinolone/metabolism , 3T3 Cells , Animals , Cell Nucleus/ultrastructure , Flumethasone/metabolism , Fluocinolone Acetonide/metabolism , Humans , Mice , Spectrometry, Mass, Secondary Ion , Structure-Activity Relationship , Tumor Cells, Cultured
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