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. 2019 Sep 26;9:13931. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-50329-3

Figure 17.

Figure 17

Dependency of induction of bystander inducing potential of tumor cells on the preparation of PAM and on the time of contact between PAM and cells. PAM was generated by treatment of the medium with CAP for 1 min (A) or 3 minutes (B). MKN-45 tumor cells were mixed with PAM (50%) for the indicated times of contact and then washed by three cycles. Increasing percentages of pretreated cells were mixed with untreated tumor cells and the percentages of apoptotic cells in the cocultures were determined 4.5 hours after the beginning of the coculture. The results show that the induction of bystander inducing potential depends on the time of CAP treatment during the preparation of PAM and on the time of contact between PAM and the tumor cells. This is in line with the assumption that CAP generates long-lived species in PAM in a time-dependent fashion and that these compounds need to interact among themselves and with the cells in a time-dependent way.