Graduation Year
2016
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree
Ph.D.
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Degree Granting Department
Public Health
Major Professor
Raymond D. Harbison, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Giffe T. Johnson, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Marie M. Bourgeois, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Nicholas Hall, Ph.D.
Keywords
Oxygen Tension, Citric Acid Cycle, Acrolein, Differentiated H9c2 Cells
Abstract
Most in vitro systems employ the standard cell culture maintenance conditions of 95 % air with 5 % CO2 to balance medium pH, which translates to culture oxygen tensions of approximately 20 % - above the typical ≤ 6 % found in most tissues. The current investigation, therefore, aims to characterize the effect of maintenance and toxicant exposure with a particular focus on the α,β-unsaturated aldehyde, acrolein, in the presence of physiologically relevant oxygen tension using a differentiated H9c2 cardiomyoblast subclone. H9c2 cells were maintained separately in 20.1 and 5 % oxygen, after which cells were differentiated for five days, and then exposed to acrolein in media containing varying concentrations of tricarboxylic acid and glycolytic substrates. Cells were then assessed for viability and metabolism via the MTT conversion assay. H9c2 cells were assessed for mechanistic elucidation to characterize contributors to cellular death, including mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨm) reductions (JC-1), intracellular calcium influx (Fluo-4), and PARP activation. Exposure to acrolein in differing oxygen tensions revealed that standard culture cells are particularly sensitive to acrolein, but cells cultured in 5 % oxygen, depending on the medium pyruvate concentration, can be rescued significantly. Further, reductions in ΔΨm were reversed by co-exposure of 5-10 mM EGTA for both culture conditions, while intracellular calcium transients were noted only for standard cultures. The results demonstrate significant metabolic reprogramming which desensitizes differentiated H9c2 to acrolein-induced cytotoxicity. Further, PARP and extracellular calcium contribute to the fate of these cells exposed to acrolein, though clotrimazole-associated TRPM2 channels may not be significantly involved. Conclusively, significant alteration of toxicogenic response was noted in this cell line when cultured under physiologically relevant conditions, and may have a substantial impact on the reliability and predictive power and interpretive application of in vitro-based toxicity models cultured under standard culture conditions, depending on the parent tissue.
Scholar Commons Citation
Coyle, Jayme, "The Influence of Oxygen Tension and Glycolytic and Citric Acid Cycle Substrates in Acrolein-induced Cellular Injury in the Differentiated H9c2 Cardiac Cell Model" (2016). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/6487
