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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-8-4
pubmed:abstractText
Fragmentation of human urinary and biliary stones by shock waves in extracorporeal lithotripsy is accompanied by tissue damage. Both the fragmentation as well as the side effects are often attributed to cavitation. The hazardous potential of cavitation is not only of a physical nature but also of a chemical nature, because of the generation of free radicals, e.g. .OH, .H and .O2. After the application of shock waves, we have demonstrated cavitation-generated free radicals in cell-free solutions and also in the surviving and intact suspended MGH-U1 cells by hydroethidine measurements. Under electron microscopical inspection, the same cells exhibited perinuclear cisternae, damaged mitochondria and numerous intracellular vacuoles. The contribution of free radicals to cell damage was investigated by reducing the vitamin E level in rats by a tocopherol free diet and by incubating L1210 cells in a tocopherol enriched medium. After 250 shock waves, ex vivo erythrocytes revealed a 75% increase in total cell disruption over cells from non-depleted rats. The in vitro experiments with L1210 cells exhibited a moderate protection by the addition of this scavenger of free radicals.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0041-624X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
32
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
301-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:7517598-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:7517598-Antioxidants, pubmed-meshheading:7517598-Carcinoma, pubmed-meshheading:7517598-Cell Death, pubmed-meshheading:7517598-Cell Survival, pubmed-meshheading:7517598-Erythrocytes, pubmed-meshheading:7517598-Female, pubmed-meshheading:7517598-Fluorescent Dyes, pubmed-meshheading:7517598-Free Radicals, pubmed-meshheading:7517598-Hemolysis, pubmed-meshheading:7517598-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:7517598-Leukemia, Experimental, pubmed-meshheading:7517598-Lithotripsy, pubmed-meshheading:7517598-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:7517598-Phenanthridines, pubmed-meshheading:7517598-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:7517598-Rats, Inbred Strains, pubmed-meshheading:7517598-Staining and Labeling, pubmed-meshheading:7517598-Tumor Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:7517598-Urinary Bladder Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:7517598-Vitamin E
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Reduced cavitation-induced cellular damage by the antioxidative effect of vitamin E.
pubmed:affiliation
Biophysics Department, University of Stuttgart, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, In Vitro, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't