title: Oxygen consumption through metabolism and photodynamic reactions in cells cultured on microbeads.
abstract: Oxygen consumption by cultured cells, through metabolism and photosensitization reactions, has been calculated theoretically. From this result, we have derived the partial oxygen pressure PO2 in the perfusion medium flowing across sensitized cultured cells during photodynamic experiments. The PO2 variations in the perfusate during light irradiation are related to the rate of oxygen consumption through photoreactions, and to the number of cells killed per mole of oxygen consumed through metabolic processes. After irradiation, the reduced metabolic oxygen consumption yields information on the cell death rate, and on the photodynamic cell killing efficiency. The aim of this paper is to present an experimental set-up and the corresponding theoretical model that allows us to control the photodynamic efficiency for a given cell-sensitizer pair, under well defined and controlled conditions of irradiation and oxygen supply. To demonstrate the usefulness of the methodology described, CHO cells cultured on microbeads were sensitized with pheophorbide a and irradiated with different light fluence rates. The results obtained, i.e. oxygen consumption of about 0.1 microM s(-1) m(-3) under a light fluence rate of 1 W m(-2), 10(5) cells killed per mole of oxygen consumed and a decay rate of about 1 h(-1) of living cells after irradiation, are in good agreement with the theoretical predictions and with previously published data.
authors.affiliation: Institut de Physique Biologique, UPRES-A 7004 CNRS, Faculté de Médecine, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Schunck
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Poulet
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016466:CHO Cells; D016923:Cell Death / Q000187:drug effects / Q000528:radiation effects; D002734:Chlorophyll / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000494:pharmacology; D006224:Cricetinae; D008027:Light; D008863:Microspheres; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010101:Oxygen Consumption / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000528:radiation effects; D010313:Partial Pressure; D010778:Photochemotherapy; D017319:Photosensitizing Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D017319:Photosensitizing Agents; D002734:Chlorophyll; C032623:pheophorbide a