The toxic effects of 7 beta-hydroxycholesterol (7 beta-OHC) on cultures and co-cultures of rat hepatocytes, rat liver epithelial cell lines, and rat liver fibroblast lines were investigated. Hepatocytes in primary culture or co-cultured with proliferative epithelial cells, were not affected by the presence of 7 beta-OHC at a concentration of 400 microM over a period of 72 hours. In contrast, proliferative cultures of liver epithelial cell lines and liver fibroblast lines were killed by 50 microM 7 beta-OHC within the first 24 hours. Established liver epithelial cells (hyperploid) were more sensitive to 7 beta-OHC than the same line at early passages (diploid). When hepatocytes and liver epithelial cells were co-cultured and treated with 100 microM 7 beta-OHC, only epithelial cells were lysed. A concentration of 50 microM 7 beta-OHC was toxic to co-cultures of liver epithelial cell and fibroblasts together. In a serum-free medium, the cytotoxic concentration of 7 beta-OHC was lower than that in the serum-supplemented medium. Thus, liver epithelial cells cultured alone or co-cultured with hepatocytes were killed at 12.5 microM and 50 microM 7 beta-OHC, respectively. Finally, cholesterol concentrations four-fold that of 7 beta-OHC antagonized the lethal effects of 7 beta-OHC in the serum-free medium.
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