title: Pyridoxine toxicity to cultured fibroblasts caused by near-ultraviolet light.
abstract: Pyridoxine, like riboflavin, has absorption in the range of near ultraviolet (UVA; 320-400 nm) radiation and is known to decompose after long irradiation with germicidal lamps. Thus, the possibility of UVA-induced pyridoxine photosensitization was studied in cultured normal human, hydroa vacciniforme, and xeroderma pigmentosum fibroblasts. Cytotoxicity caused by the sensitization was measured by post-UVA colony formation. Pyridoxine showed strong cytotoxic effect after UVA radiation and the effect remained for at least 60 min after UVA radiation. Although the cytotoxicity decreased a little when pyridoxine was irradiated under anaerobic conditions, the amount of hydrogen peroxide produced by UVA radiation was hardly cytotoxic and the rate of photodecomposition of pyridoxine was slower under anaerobic conditions than aerobic ones. Thus, the toxicity seemed to depend mostly on the photoproducts of pyridoxine. The UVA-induced pyridoxine cytotoxicity was not due to DNA damage that is to be excision-repaired because group A and C xeroderma pigmentosum fibroblasts were killed as in the case of normal human fibroblasts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Osaka University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Taguchi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Maeda
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yoshikawa
mesh_terms: D000042:Absorption / Q000187:drug effects; D000332:Aerobiosis; D000693:Anaerobiosis; D016923:Cell Death / Q000187:drug effects*; D002460:Cell Line; D002999:Clone Cells / Q000187:drug effects; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000166:cytology / Q000528:radiation effects*; D006735:Horseradish Peroxidase / Q000494:pharmacology; D006801:Humans; D006861:Hydrogen Peroxide / Q000378:metabolism; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D011736:Pyridoxine / Q000528:radiation effects* / Q000633:toxicity; D013997:Time Factors; D014466:Ultraviolet Rays
chemical_list: D006861:Hydrogen Peroxide; D006735:Horseradish Peroxidase; D011736:Pyridoxine