Fig. 1.
Ionizing radiation inhibits proliferation linked with increased cytotoxicity and apoptosis but only in U251-MG GB cells. For these experiments, GB cells were cultivated at 21% or 3% oxygen in non-irradiated condition (0) or 3 days after an irradiation of 4 or 16 Gy. Numbers of nuclei of U251-MG (A) and U87-MG (B) GB cells are expressed as mean ± Standard Error of the Mean (S.E.M.) (n = 3). Measure of Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDH) release into cell culture medium of U251-MG (C) and U87-MG (D) GB was assessed. Cytotoxicity is expressed as mean percentage ± SEM (n = 3) of the total amount of LDH released from cells and relative to GB cells treated 0.1% Triton X-100, given the arbitrary percentage of 100. DEVD-AMC caspase-3 activity in U251-MG (E) and U87-MG (F) GB cells is expressed as mean arbitrary units (A.U.) of fluorescence per 30 µg of proteins ± SEM (n = 3). One-way ANOVA test was performed between non-irradiated (0 Gy) or irradiated (4 or 16 Gy) conditions (*, p-value ≤ 0.05; **, p-value ≤ 0.01; ***, p-value ≤ 0.001; ****, p-value ≤ 0.0001)