Abstract
Alkyl viologens showed cytotoxicity when incubated with cultured murine leukemia L1210 cells for 48 h, whereas they were not cytotoxic when briefly incubated for 10 min. Under the permeabilizing conditions achieved by vortex-stirring with a high molecular weight polyacrylic acid (A-119), appreciable cytotoxicity was shown even after a 10-min exposure to any of the alkyl and amino viologens examined. Acetylamino viologen showed no cytotoxicity regardless of the presence or absence of A-119. This permeabilizing procedure was demonstrated to be applicable to internalize water-soluble positively charged viologen molecules into the cell.
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