Cadmium affects osmotic phase and regulatory volume decrease in cultured human embryonic kidney cells

Submitted: November 27, 2015
Accepted: March 21, 2016
Published: June 27, 2016
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The present investigation aims to verify whether cadmium (Cd2+), a metal possibly accumulated in body tissues from air and food, affects cell volume regulation capability in cultured human embryonic kidney (HEK 293 Phoenix) cells. The osmotic phase (OP), which is the expected cell swelling due to aquaporins involvement after hyposmotic challenge, and regulatory volume decrease (RVD), bringing cell volume back to control values through Ca2+-dependent ion efflux (K+ and Cl–), have been monitored in HEK 293 cells treated with Cd2+ (1-10-100 μM) for different time intervals (30 min, 3 h, overnight) and then submitted to 15 % hyposmotic shock. The results show that both 1 and 10 μM Cd2+ significantly reduced OP, whereas 100 μM impaired Cd2+ RVD mechanisms. The use of glutathione (GSH, 200 μM) confirmed that Cd2+ elicited its effect via oxidative damage, being RVD inhibition after Cd2+ treatment prevented by this antioxidant compound. Our findings show that: i) HEK 293 cells are a suitable model to assay the effect of xenobiotics on cell homeostasis; ii) Cd2+, depending on its concentration, affects cell homeostasis at different levels, i.e. water and ion permeability, responsible for, respectively, OP and RVD mechanism, adding thus more information to the knowledge of Cd2+ toxicology.

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Rossana Morabito, Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Messina
Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences
Alessia Remigante, Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Messina
Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences
Roberta Costa, Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität, Salzburg

Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Silvia Dossena, Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität, Salzburg
Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Giuseppa La Spada, Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Messina
Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences
Angela Marino, Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Messina
Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences

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Morabito, R., Remigante, A., Costa, R., Dossena, S., La Spada, G., & Marino, A. (2016). Cadmium affects osmotic phase and regulatory volume decrease in cultured human embryonic kidney cells. Journal of Biological Research - Bollettino Della Società Italiana Di Biologia Sperimentale, 89(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/jbr.2016.5650