Table 5

Evaluation of apoptosis versus necrosis in hepatocyte cultures incubated with 10 mM Pb(NO3)2, Pb(C2H3O2)2 or KNO3 and with CM from Kupffer cells.*

Treatments
Hours


6
8
16
24
48

Control
-
-
-
±
±
Pb(NO3)2
-
-
-
±
+++
Pb(C2H3O2)2
-
-
±
+++
++++
KNO3
-
-
-
±
±
C.M.
-
-
-
Apoptosis (35%)
Apoptosis (48%)

* Control animals were injected with saline. The presence of necrosis is represented by +: ± <20%; + 20–40%; ++ 40–60%; +++ 60–80%; ++++ >80%. C.M. = conditioned medium collected from Kupffer cell cultures incubated for 24 h with Pb(NO3)2 (10 mM). Apoptosis was detected on slides of haematoxylin-eosin stained cells, counting at least 300 cells in at least 10 randomly selected fields.

Pagliara et al. Comparative Hepatology 2003 2:8   doi:10.1186/1476-5926-2-8