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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2007 Jan 8;222(3):289–297. doi: 10.1016/j.taap.2006.12.033

Table 1.

Lack of mutagenicity by arsenite (24 hour exposure) in Chinese hamster V79 cells at the HPRT locus and in the derivative G12 cells at the transgenic gpt locus at high cell survival levels (Data from Li, 1988)

Cells (locus) Arsenite (μM) % Survival Mutants Mutant fraction (per 106)
V79 (HPRT) 0 (100) 1 1.15
5 97.7 0 <1.26
10 62.4 0 <2.15
15 30.5 1 3.39
20 10.9 3 10.20
G12 (gpt) 0 (100) 22 40.2
5 88.5 34 52.8
10 69.2 33 60.2
15 38.1 30 66.4
20 21.4 40 107.9
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