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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 5.
Published in final edited form as: Toxicol In Vitro. 2006 Feb 13;20(6):959–965. doi: 10.1016/j.tiv.2006.01.004

Table 1.

Neutral comet assay of MNNG-treated FL cells

Control DMSO 0.1 μg/ml 1.0 μg/ml 10 μg/ml
10 min Percentage (%) with tail 20.28 ± 0.54 20.24 ± 5.05 19.79 ± 6.20 18.69 ± 3.81 16.15 ± 2.09
Tail length (μm) 2.30 ± 1.66 3.56 ± 1.73 2.99 ± 2.97 3.22 ± 1.44 1.01 ± 1.24
30 min Percentage (%) with tail 16.89 ± 3.92 19.64 ± 3.57 21.11 ± 1.57 16.67 ± 0 18.75 ± 2.83
Tail length (μm) 4.43 ± 1.59 3.70 ± 1.67 2.72 ± 1.61 3.50 ± 1.82 2.22 ± 1.34
2 h Percentage (%) with tail 28.29 ± 4.65 22.47 ± 1.48 73.74 ± 12.88 55.05 ± 1.69 29.17 ± 5.89
Tail length (μm) 1.56 ± 0.94 2.83 ± 1.69 10.81 ± 3.80 7.45 ± 4.10 2.67 ± 1.14
8 h Percentage (%) with tail 15.04 ± 0.47 20 ± 0 75.64 ± 4.13 64.21 ± 5.95 15 ± 7.07
Tail length (μm) 1.69 ± 1.31 2.65 ± 1.41 14.01 ± 1.26 13.61 ± 3.7 4.53 ± 3.34
24 h Percentage (%) with tail 19.44 ± 3.92 22.50 ± 3.89 29.32 ± 3.49 71.36 ± 1.92 0
Tail length (μm) 3.13 ± 2.08 1.78 ± 1.21 5.49 ± 3.98 9.71 ± 5.38 0
48 h Percentage (%) with tail 18.33 ± 2.35 12.96 ± 2.61 20.19 ± 6.79 67.35 ± 3.74 33.33 ± 0
Tail length (μm) 2.84 ± 2.66 2.33 ± 1.65 3.36 ± 2.97 12.79 ± 4.67 4.34 ± 2.44