Table 1.

Reported Ames test data

Chemical name		Ames test result	Test strains used	Reference
Quinoline analogues
Quinoline		Mutagenic (+ S9) in TA100, TA98, WP2uvrA	TA100, TA1535, TA98, TA1537, WP2uvrA (± S9)	[9]
Isoquinoline		Non-mutagenic	TA100, TA98 (± S9)	[10]
Quinoxaline		Mutagenic (+ S9) in TA98	TA100, TA98, TA102 (± S9)	[7]
		Non-mutagenic	TA100, TA1535, TA98, TA1537, TA1538a	[7]
Phthalazine		Non-mutagenic	TA100, TA98 (± S9)	[11]
Indole analogues
Indole		Mutagenicb	WP2, WP2uvrA/pKM101, WP2uvrA, TA102 (± S9)	[12]
		Non-mutagenic	TA100 (-S9)	[13]
		Non-mutagenic	TA100, TA98 (-S9)	[14]
Indazole		Non-mutagenic	TA100, TA98 (-S9)	[14]
Benzimidazole		Weakly mutagenic in HisG46 and TA1530 (-S9)c	HisG46, TA1530, TA1531, TA1532, HisD3052, TA1534 (-S9)	[15]
		Non-mutagenic	TA100, TA98 (-S9)	[14]
		Non-mutagenic	TA100, TA1535, TA98, TA1537, TA97 (± S9)	[16]

^athe presence or absence of S9 mix was not clearly indicated

^btest strain showed mutagenic was not available

^cconducted by a spot test