Fornabaio M, Kim YS, Stackpole CW. Selective fractionation of hypoxic B16 melanoma cells by density gradient centrifugation.
Cancer Lett 1989;
44:185-90. [PMID:
2924286 DOI:
10.1016/0304-3835(89)90059-1]
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Abstract
Cells of the mouse B16 melanoma growing in monolayer culture and as tumors were fractionated by isopycnic density centrifugation in a linear-density (1.02-1.20 g/ml) metrizamide gradient. Cultured cells concentrated into one or two distinct bands, with densities of 1.02-1.04 g/ml and 1.06-1.10 g/ml, depending on growth conditions. Cells subjected to extreme hypoxia (less than 0.02% O2) banded predominantly at the lower density, and normally-oxygenated cells banded at the higher density. Fractionated tumor cells concentrated at both densities. Compared with cells at the higher density, lower-density cells incorporated more of the hypoxic cell radiosensitizer [14C]misonidazole and less [3H]thymidine in vivo, were less clonogenic but more resistant to X-irradiation in situ, and labeled to a lesser extent with intravenously-delivered Hoechst 33342 fluorochrome, a marker for cells proximal to tumor blood vessels. Lower-density tumor cells were, therefore, enriched in non-proliferating radioresistant hypoxic cells from tumor regions remote from blood vessels.
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