Comparison of dilute and nondilute osmotic equilibrium models for erythrocytes

Successful cryopreservation requires the addition of cryoprotective agents (CPAs). The addition of permeating CPAs, such as glycerol, is associated with some risk to the cells and tissues. These risks are both related to the CPA themselves (CPA toxicity) and to the volume response of the cell (osmot...

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Published in:Cryobiology 2022-12, Vol.109, p.72-79
Main Authors: Shuttleworth, R., Higgins, A.Z., Eroglu, A., Benson, J.D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Boyle van ‘t hoff
Cryopreservation
Cryopreservation - methods
Cryoprotective agents
Cryoprotective Agents - chemistry
Erythrocytes - metabolism
Glycerol
Glycerol - metabolism
Glycerol - pharmacology
Hemoglobin
Hemoglobins - metabolism
Mathematical modelling
Nondilute
Nonideal
Red blood cell
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Summary:Successful cryopreservation requires the addition of cryoprotective agents (CPAs). The addition of permeating CPAs, such as glycerol, is associated with some risk to the cells and tissues. These risks are both related to the CPA themselves (CPA toxicity) and to the volume response of the cell (osmotic damage). To minimize the potential for damage during cryopreservation, mathematical models are often employed to understand the interactions between protocols and cell volume responses. In the literature, this volume response is usually captured using ideal and dilute approximations of chemical potential and osmolality, an approach that has been called into question for cells in high concentrations of CPAs. To address this, the relevance of non-ideal and non-dilute models has been explored in a number of cell types in the presence of permeating CPAs. However, it has not been explored in erythrocytes, which have a cytosolic hemoglobin content of more than 20% by volume and are cryopreserved in 40% glycerol. Because hemoglobin has been suggested to be a highly non-ideal solute, if the non-ideal and non-dilute transport model is relevant to any cells, it should be relevant to erythrocytes. Here we investigate the use, and accuracy, of both the dilute and non-dilute models in predicting cell volume changes during CPA equilibration in erythrocytes, and demonstrate that using published values for the non-ideal and non-dilute model, applied to erythrocytes, leads to model predictions inconsistent with experimental data, whereas dilute approximations align well with experimental data.
ISSN:0011-2240
1090-2392
DOI:10.1016/j.cryobiol.2022.09.001