title: Advantages of a two-chamber culture system to test drug nephrotoxicity: the example of cephaloridine.
abstract: Rabbit renal proximal tubular cells, cultured to confluency on a permeable collagen film in a two-chamber system, were exposed for 72 h to various concentrations of the nephrotoxic antibiotic, cephaloridine (CLD). A decrease in cellular proteins, leakage of lactate dehydrogenase and morphological changes appeared at CLD concentrations of 0.1, 1.0, and 0.5 mg/ml, respectively. The permeability of the monolayer to Lucifer yellow (LY), a dye that does not cross cell membranes, was increased by 1 or 2 mg/ml but not by lower concentrations of CLD. The large basolateral/apical glucose concentration gradient established by the cells was decreased by CLD. However, the fact that, at the CLD concentration of 1 mg/ml, LY totally equilibrated by diffusion across the monolayer, whereas the injured monolayer was still able to maintain a detectable glucose gradient, shows that damage caused by CLD to the diffusion barrier prevails over that affecting glucose uptake. Consistent with the data in the literature concerning the mechanism of CLD accumulation in renal cells, our results show that CLD was more toxic when it was added at the basolateral than at the apical side of the cultured cells. These results illustrate the advantages of using a two-chamber system of cell culture in nephrotoxicity studies.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Physiopathologie Métabolique et Rénale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (CRI 950201), Faculté de Médecine R.T.H. Laënnec, Université Lyon I, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bolon
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gauthier
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Simonnet
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Baverel
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002509:Cephaloridine / Q000633:toxicity*; D002511:Cephalosporins / Q000633:toxicity*; D015194:Diffusion Chambers, Culture; D004353:Drug Evaluation, Preclinical; D007687:Kidney Tubules, Proximal / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects*; D011817:Rabbits
chemical_list: D002511:Cephalosporins; D002509:Cephaloridine