Cytotoxicity of pharmaceuticals found in aquatic systems: Comparison of PLHC-1 and RTG-2 fish cell lines

被引:111
作者
Caminada, Daniel
Escher, Claudia
Fent, Karl
机构
[1] Univ Appl Sci NW Switzerland, Sch Life Sci, Inst Ecopreneurship, CH-4132 Muttenz, Switzerland
[2] Univ Zurich, Inst Plant Biol, Div Limnol, CH-8802 Kilchberg, Switzerland
[3] ETH, Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Dept Environm Sci, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
关键词
pharmaceuticals; cytotoxicity; fish cell lines; comparison in vitro-in vivo; aquatic environment;
D O I
10.1016/j.aquatox.2006.05.010
中图分类号
Q17 [水生生物学];
学科分类号
071004 [水生生物学];
摘要
There is need for a better understanding of the ecotoxicity of pharmaceuticals present in aquatic systems as only little is known about their potential acute and chronic toxicity to aquatic organisms. In our work, we evaluate the in vitro cytotoxicity of 34 common pharmaceuticals from different classes and with different modes of action using the mitochondrial MTT reduction and neutral red uptake assays in the two fish cell lines, PLHC-1 and RTG-2. Cytotoxicity was found for 21 pharmaceuticals with EC50-values ranging from 2.1 mu M (1.14 mg l(-1)) (doxorubicin) to 8.66 mM (1200 mg l(-1)) (salicylic acid). There was no significant difference between the MTT and NR assays except for an increase in absorption observed with four pharmaceuticals at low concentrations in the MTT assay with PLHC-1 cells indicating a hormesis effect. The comparison of the cell lines revealed that the PLHC-1 cell line was slightly more sensitive than the RTG-2 cell line, showing cytotoxicity at smaller concentrations. The cytotoxicity of pharmaceuticals showed a correlation with their Log D-values at physiological conditions (pH 7.0). A correlation between the in vitro data and in vivo data was found for Daphnia, but not for fish due to insufficient and heterogeneous data. Our work provides an indication that in Vitro cytotoxicity assays with fish cell lines could be suited for the first screening of the acute in vivo toxicity of pharmaceuticals, thereby contributing to the reduction of in vivo experiments. Further investigations with a larger set of pharmaceuticals are needed to strengthen the reliability of the assays and to validate the correlation with in vivo data. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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