Very few data are available concerning the in vitro toxicity of uranium. In this work, we have determined the experimental chemical conditions permitting the observation of uranium(VI) cytotoxicity on LLC-PK1 cells. Uranium solutions made either by dissolving uranyl acetate or nitrate crystals, or by complexing uranium with bicarbonate, phosphate or citrate ligands, were prepared and tested. Experiments demonstrated that only uranium solutions containing citrate and bicarbonate ligands concentrations tenfold higher than the metal, were soluble in the cell culture medium. Cytotoxicity studies of all these uranium compounds were performed on LLC-PK1 cells and compared using LDH release, neutral red uptake and MTT assays. Dose dependent cytotoxicity curves were only obtained with uranium-bicarbonate medium. This study has revealed a toxicity of uranium-bicarbonate complexes for 24 h expositions and for concentrations ranging from 7 x 10(-4)-10(-3) M, under these conditions, the CI50 (cytotoxicity index) was evaluated between 8.5 and 9 x 10(-4) M. In contrast, we noticed a lack of cytotoxicity response for uranium(VI)-citrate complexes. Electron transmission microscopy studies revealed, when LLC-PK1 cells were exposed to the uranium-bicarbonate system, that uranium penetrated and precipitated within the cytoplasmic compartment. Morphological studies conducted with citrate complexes did not show any cellular intake of uranium.
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