Original Article

EVALUATION OF CYTOTOXICITY OF SOME AGENTS AS A SCREENING TEST IN ANTITUMORAL ACTIVITY USING VERO, HE-LA AND HEP-2 CELL CULTURES

  • Berrin Özçelik
  • Taner Karaoglu
  • Ufuk Abbasoglu

Received Date: 30.09.2004 Accepted Date: 30.11.2004 Turk J Pharm Sci 2004;1(3):153-163

Abstact Tissue culture tests which presents in the in-vitro antitumoral activity tests that permit to investigate thoroughly the different effects of the compounds in specific doses which interacts with DNA have been researched by many authors. In this study, from the antitumoral and antifungal agents namely, bleomicyn, mitomycin C, daunoru-bicin, cyclophosphamide, iphosphamide, vinorelbine, vinblastine, gemcitabine, cytarabine, carboplatin, cisplatin, flukonazole, and terbinafine were investigated by using Vero, He-La and Hep-2 cell cultures. The cytopathogenic effects of tested materials were evaluated by cell culture microscopy. While the maximum cytotoxicity was determined in daunorubicin in minimal dose at 0.098ppg/ml, lower effect was determined in vincristine, mitomycin C, bleomicyn, gemcitabine, carboplatin, cytarabine, cisplatin, and vinblastine, and cytarabine in Vero, He-La and Hep-2 cell line cultures. No activi-ties were observed with antifungal agents. When the results were compared with the reports, the different cytotoxic activity in different cells and different doses may result to miss the possible antitumoral effect. For this reason, several cell line cultures have to be used. Cell culture tests can be used as a screening test in antitumoral activity screen-ing for the small quantity of synthesized and expensive materials. Özet DNA ile etkilesen bilesiklerin belirli dozlarda gösterdigi farkli etkilerin çok yönlü incelenmesine olanak taniiyan in-vitro antitumoral aktivite testleri arasinda yer alan hücre kültürü testleri; birçok arastirici tarafindan denenmektedir. Çalismada; antitumoral ve antifungal ajanlardan bleomisin, mitomisin, daunorubisin, siklofos-famid, ifosfamid, vinblastin, vinorelbin, gemistabin, sitarabin, karboplatin, sisplatin, flukonazol ve terbinafin, Vero, He-La ve Hep-2 hücre kültürlerinde arastirilmistir. Sitopatojenik etki doku kültürü mikroskobu ile degerlendirilmistir. Vero, He-La ve Hep-2 hücre kültüründe en düsük dozda 0.098^g/ml’de en yüksek sitotoksisite daunorubisinde görülürken, bununla kiyasla daha az etki vinkristin, mitomisin C, bleomisin, gem-sitabin, karboplatin, siderabin, cisplatin, vevinblastin’ de görülmüstür. Antifungal ajanlarda sitotoksik etki görülmemistir. Yapilmis arastirmalarla kiyaslanan sonuçlarda maddelerin farkli hücrelerde farkli dozlarda sitotoksik etki göstermesi, olasi antitumoral etkinin gözden kaçmasiina neden olabilecegini ortaya koymustur. Bu nedenle çesitli hücre kültürlerinin kullanilmasi geregi görülmektedir. Miktari az ve maliyeti yüksek olan maddeler için ayni zamanda hassas sonuçlar vermesi nedeniyle hücre kültürü testi antitumoral aktivite taramalarimda ön tarama testi olarak seçilebilir.

Keywords: Antitumör aktivite, Sitotoksisite, Vero, He-La, Hep-2