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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Protoc Toxicol. 2018 Nov 2;79(1):e66. doi: 10.1002/cptx.66

Table 1:

List of model compounds used and their mechanism of toxicity

Model compounds Concentration used (μM) Compound type Known mechanism of toxicity References
Acetaminophen 8 – 2,124 Analgesic and antipyretic drug AP, BA, OS (Park, Williams, Naisbitt, Kitteringham, & Pirmohamed, 2005; Wang, Shindoh, Inoue, & Horii, 2002)
Lovastatin 2 – 472 Hypolipidemic drug AP, DD, MI (Kallas-Kivi, Trei, & Maimets, 2016; Niknejad et al., 2014; Walther et al., 2016; Wei et al., 2007; Zhao et al., 2015)
Rotenone 0.12 – 30 Pesticide, insecticide, and piscicide AP, MI, OS (Cabezas et al., 2012; Isenberg & Klaunig, 2000; Moon et al., 2005)
Tamoxifen 0.48 – 118 Hormonal drug for breast cancer AP, MI, OS (Lee et al., 2000; Tabassum et al., 2006; Tolosa et al., 2012, 2015)
Menadione 0.7 – 117 Vitamin K precursor MI, OS (Akiyoshi et al., 2009; De Assis et al., 2015; Tolosa et al., 2012; Woods, Young, Gilmore, Morris, & Bilton, 1997)
Sodium Citrate 5.6 – 1,417 Intermediate in the Krebs cycle Nontoxic control (Tolosa et al., 2012)

Apoptosis (AP), bioactivation (BA), DNA damage (DD), mitochondrial impairment (MI), and oxidative stress (OS).