Early acute necrosis and delayed apoptosis induced by methyl mercury in murine peritoneal neutrophils

Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology
Tsun-Cheng Kuo, Shoei Yn Lin-Shiau

Abstract

There is growing evidence that heavy metals in general, and mercurial compounds in particular, are immunotoxic. The purpose of this study was to explore the mechanism of MeHg in inducing cell death of mouse peritoneal neutrophils. In this paper we demonstrate that MeHg induces apoptosis and necrosis depending on MeHg concentration. In vitro exposure of mouse peritoneal neutrophils to MeHg resulted in a time- and concentration-dependent cell death. MeHg (15 microM) induced neutrophil necrosis in 13 min. The type of cell death was attributed to necrosis based on cells permeable to the fluorescent dye, propidium iodide and DNA appeared as a smear. With fura-2 microfluorimetric technique, we found that the entry of external Ca2+ into the cytosol played a crucial role in inducing cell necrosis by 15 microM MeHg. However, at lower concentrations, MeHg (10 microM)-induced apoptosis is confirmed by the observation of morphological features characterised by apoptotic bodies and fragmented DNA ladder. MeHg (10 microM) caused an immediate fall in pHi as revealed by the pH-sensitive fluorescent probe 2'7'-bis (carboxyethyl)-5(6)-carboxyfluorescein. We have found that MeHg induced cellular acidification prior to DNA fragmentation so as the ...Continue Reading

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