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SUBMITTER: Quan YY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5444707 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Quan Ying-Yao YY Liu Yu-Hong YH Lin Chun-Mei CM Wang Xiao-Ping XP Chen Tong-Sheng TS
Oncotarget 20170501 18
This study aims to explore which radicals dominate sodium nitroprusside (SNP)-induced cytotoxicity in human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells (HepG2 and Hep3B). Exposure of SNP to cell medium produced abundant nitric oxide (NO), superoxide anion (O2•-), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and iron ions. SNP potently induced caspases activation, mitochondrial membrane permeabilization and apoptosis in HCC cells. In Hep3B cells, pretreatment with NO scavenger (PTIO) did not prevent SNP-induced cytotoxicit ...[more]