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http://dx.doi.org/10.7776/ASK.2017.36.3.172

A pattern of cell death induced by 40 kHz ultrasound in yeast cell model  

Kim, Ji Wook (Department of Chemistry and Biology, Korea Science Academy of KAIST)
Kong, Hee Jeong (Biotechnology Research Division, National Institute of Fisheries Research)
Kim, Young H. (Applied Acoustics Laboratory, Korea Science Academy of KAIST)
Kang, Kwang Il (Department of Chemistry and Biology, Korea Science Academy of KAIST)
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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea / v.36, no.3, 2017 , pp. 172-178 More about this Journal
Abstract
Ultrasound has been widely used for biological and medical applications including induction of cell death, but a precise mechanism of induced cell death by ultrasound is controversial. In this study, an irradiation system with 40 kHz ultrasound was developed for a suitable cell death test of a representative unicellular organism, yeast, and used to study the biological effect of ultrasound on inducing cell death. Potassium Iodide (KI) dosimetry was used to devise an optimal system that successfully delivers 40 kHz ultrasound and produces reactive oxygen species in a 1.5 ml Eppendorf tube. Cell death was observed in an ultrasound transmission time-dependent fashion in this system. Thermal effect during irradiation was not observable in ultrasound induced cell death. Co-treatment of 40 kHz ultrasound and hydrogen peroxide showed a synergistic effect in inducing cell death. This finding suggests that 40 kHz ultrasound is related to reactive oxygen species formation. However, NAC (N-acetyl-L-cysteine) oxygen scavenger slightly inhibited the cell death by 40 kHz ultrasound. It was also found that 40 kHz ultrasound induced cell death was slightly inhibited by inhibitors of necrosis or apoptosis (glycyrrhizin or zVAD-fmk). This study suggests that cell death induced by 40 kHz ultrasound may not be exclusively related to reactive oxygen species formation and thermal effects in irradiated yeast cells.
Keywords
Cell death; 40 kHz ultrasound; yeast; Reactive oxygen species;
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