title: Glutathione content of cultured human fibroblasts during in vitro ageing.
abstract: The glutathione level of cultured human fibroblasts was determined with a micromodification of a spectrophotometric glutathione cycling method. There was a slight increase in reduced glutathione (GSH) content during in vitro ageing of normal human fibroblasts. Fibroblasts from patients with Werner's syndrome or ceroid lipofuscinosis (Spielmeyer-Vogt syndrome) and healthy individuals exhibited similar patterns of GSH levels during in vitro ageing. The GSH content of non-proliferating confluent cultures of normal fibroblasts and of proliferating normal fibroblasts was identical. Moreover, autofluorescent "aged" cells isolated by cell sorting did not differ in GSH content from the non-autofluorescent cells in the same culture. It was concluded that the GSH content does not play a role in in vitro ageing, nor in the accumulation of autofluorescent material in human skin fibroblasts.
mesh_terms: D002470:Cell Survival; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000378:metabolism*; D005978:Glutathione / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D009472:Neuronal Ceroid-Lipofuscinoses / Q000378:metabolism; D012867:Skin / Q000378:metabolism; D014898:Werner Syndrome / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D005978:Glutathione