title: Estimation of changes in vimentin filaments induced by etoposide and doxorubicin in human leukemia cell line K-562 by using immunofluorescence microscopy.
abstract: This study was undertaken to examine the influence of etoposide and doxorubicin on the distribution of vimentin in cells of human leukemia cell line K-562 by using immunofluorescence microscopy. The cells were cultured with 5 different doses of etoposide: 0.02, 0.2, 2, 20, 200 microM/l and three doses of doxorubicin: 0.5, 5, 10 microM/l. Changes in vimentin filaments were dependent on concentration of drugs compared to untreated control cells. Cells treated with 20 microM/l, especially with 200 microM/l etoposide were much bigger from other cells exposed to lower doses of etoposide and control cells, and their number decreased. In most control cells vimentin was seen as a ring with the increased concentration on one pole of the cells. In 20 microM/l and 200 microM/l etoposide the cells showed rather a diffuse cytoplasmic staining pattern. Vimentin filaments were organized as a dense network in cytoplasm of these cells. Immunofluorescence studies on K-562 cells treated with doxorubicin showed that cells incubated with 5 microM/l doxorubicin have much diffuse staining pattern of vimentin with delicate reticular structure and with intense staining near one pool of the cells. Addition of 10 microM/l doxorubicin to cells resulted in increasing of fluorescence staining, which appeared in the cells as enough dense network with intense staining rather in the centre of the cell.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Pathomorphology, University School of Medical Sciences, Bydgoszcz, Poland. grzanka@ab.byd.edu.pl
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authors.lastname: Grzanka
mesh_terms: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004317:Doxorubicin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005047:Etoposide / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D007382:Intermediate Filaments / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D020014:K562 Cells; D007938:Leukemia / Q000473:pathology*; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence; D014746:Vimentin / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D014746:Vimentin; D005047:Etoposide; D004317:Doxorubicin