International Center for Investigation of Extreme States, Board of the Krasnoyarsk Research Center, Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
We studied the effect of in vitro hyperthermia on induction of blebbing in cultured Ehrlich ascitic adenocarcinoma cells. Hyperthermia (42-48 degrees C) promotes induction of blebbing in cell culture, but this induction is reversible, and cessation of hyperthermia leads to almost complete recovery of the morphological composition of cell suspension.