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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 12.
Published in final edited form as: J Toxicol Sci. 2010 Apr;35(2):149–162. doi: 10.2131/jts.35.149

Table 6. Comet Assay Data for Rats Exposed to Cyclophosphamide.

Dose (mg/kg) Number of Animals % Tail DNA Tail Length (Microns) Olive Tail Moment

Mean S.E. Mean S.E. Mean S.E.
Blood
0 5 6.0 0.90 11.7 0.70 0.7 0.17
2.5 5 5.8 0.11 11.6 0.57 0.6 0.03
5.0 5 5.7 0.07 13.1 0.54 0.7 0.06
10 5 7.6 0.86 13.9 1.12 0.9 0.13
20 5 8.8 0.86 15.7 0.92 1.1a 0.13
Trend Test: p = 0.0011b

Liver

0 5 20.4 4.41 22.8 3.14 3.8 1.17
2.5 5 28.6 2.53 29.3 1.14 6.4 0.82
5.0 5 25.5 3.31 28.8 1.44 5.2 1.00
10 5 21.6 1.93 27.1 0.67 4.2 0.55
20 5 36.1 9.25 30.5 3.69 8.5 2.40
Trend Test: p = 0.0565 c

Duodenum

0 5 21.7 3.99 23.7 2.00 3.9 0.78
2.5 5 32.0 5.30 32.4 3.99 6.5d 1.11
5.0 5 33.9 9.43 32.0 3.08 6.7 1.90
10 5 28.5 2.66 29.5 1.98 5.7d 0.47
20 5 37.9 5.75 32.2 2.15 7.4d 1.13
Trend Test: p = 0.1331 c

Data based on 100 cells scored per animal

a

p < 0.05; one-tailed Mann-Whitney test

b

Kendall Correlation; significant at p < 0.05

c

Linear regression; significant at p < 0.05

d

p < 0.05; one-tailed t-test