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. 2020 Oct 15;10:17472. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-74346-9

Table 2.

TEC-1 did not induce micronucleus formation in TK9 cells with or without a rat liver microsome fraction (S9).

Group Test article Concentration
µg/mL
Treatment conditions Relative population doubling (%) Micronucleated cells
Well 1 Well 2 Total (%)
1 DMSO 10 μL/mL 3 h -S9 mix 100 13 13 26 (0.65)
2 TEC-1 1.9 (4.9 µM) 68.6 13 16 29 (0.73)
3 2.1 (5.4 µM) 65.4 16 20 36 (0.9)
4 2.3 (5.9 µM) 35.0 29 27 56 (1.4) **,##
5 MMC 0.1 (0.3 µM) N.D. 59 59 118 (2.95) **
6 DMSO 10 μL/mL 3 h + S9 mix 100 10 14 24 (0.6)
7 TEC-1 2.5 (6.4 µM) 76.4 18 15 33 (0.83)
8 2.7 (6.9 µM) 58.7 24 21 45 (1.13) **
9 2.9 (7.4 µM) 46.8 17 13 30 (0.75)
10 CP 6 (21 µM) N.D. 39 46 85 (2.13) **
11 DMSO 10 μL/mL 24 h -S9 mix 100 18 12 30 (0.75)
12 TEC-1 1.1 (2.8 µM) 81.7 21 13 34 (0.85)
13 1.3 (3.3 µM) 74.4 17 12 29 (0.73)
14 1.5 (3.9 µM) 69.5 17 15 32 (0.8)
15 COL 0.01 (0.03 µM) N.D. 45 51 96 (2.4) **

Experiments were performed under the following three treatment conditions. 1: short-term treatment for 3 h without S9 mix, followed by a 21-h culture (3 h −S9 mix, shown in groups 1–5), 2: short-term treatment for 3 h with S9 mix, followed by 21-h culture (3 h + S9 mix, shown in groups 6–10), 3: continuous treatment for 24 h without S9 mix (24 h −S9 mix, shown in group 11–15). Mitomycin (MMC) for 3 h −S9 mix, cyclophosphamide (CP) for 3 h + S9 mix, and colcemid (COL) for 24 h −S9 mix were used as positive controls. These articles have been recommended for use in the OECD test guideline (Test No. 487)49. DMSO was served as negative control. The numbers of micronucleated cells were counted in 4000 cells and percentages of micronucleated cells were calculated for statistical analyses. ## < 0.01 as assessed by Cochran-Armitage test for dose-relationship. **p < 0.01 as assessed by Fisher’s exact test using negative control-treated cells. N.D. indicates Not Determined.