Munitions Cytotoxicities In Vitro

Mitchell, W; Dasko-Vincent, L; Wellington, D

HERO ID

2799208

Reference Type

Technical Report

Year

1995

HERO ID 2799208
Year 1995
Title Munitions Cytotoxicities In Vitro
Authors Mitchell, W; Dasko-Vincent, L; Wellington, D
Publisher Text Edgewood Research Development and Engineering Center Aberdeen Proving Ground MD
Page Numbers 7
Abstract Rapid, inexpensive, and reliable methods are needed for the toxicological screening of chemical substances with the potential to affect health and the environment. One such method, the neutral red (NR) cytotoxicity assay, is based on incorporation of the supravital dye neutral red into lysosomes of viable cells. The NR uptake assay can be used to detect cytotoxic or cytostatic effects of chemical substances capable of damaging cells, has been adapted to microtiter tissue culture systems, and can be analyzed by means of automated spectrophotometric microplate readers (1,2). Neutral red cytotoxicity assays in continuous rat hepatoma H4IIE cells have been applied to a variety of environ-mentally important munitions and related compounds. The H4IIE cells maintain inducible oxidative microsomal enzymes and were chosen because of their application to detecting other xenobiotics in environmental and biological specimens (6).
Report Number ADA294804
Url https://www.dtic.mil/DTICOnline/downloadPdf.search?collectionId=tr&docId=ADA294804
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Keyword in vitro analysis, cytotoxins, assaying, methodology, environments, damage, biology, rats, chemicals, neutral, cells, enzymes, red(color), reliability, oxidation, viability, dyes, pathology, cell structure, microsomes, hepatoma cells, 1