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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Zebrafish. 2008 Dec;5(4):257–264. doi: 10.1089/zeb.2008.0540

TABLE 1.

Concentration Response to NCP and Suppression of NCP by Exogenous Copper

Treatment Affecteda Half-affectedb Unaffected Dead
10 µM NCP 0 0 0 10
3 µM NCP 2 0 0 8
1 µM NCP 47 0 0 34
750nM NCP 78 0 0 22
500nM NCP 62 0 0 1
300nM NCP 84 23 1 6
100nM NCP 41 38 34 2
30nM NCP 0 4 61 0
10nM NCP 0 0 20 0
750nM NCP +
  500nM CuCl2
0 0 0 30
300nM NCP +
   1 µM CuCl2
1 6 105 1
100nm NCP +
   1 µM CuCl2
0 0 104 1
a

Affected fish are missing most or all of their melanocytes of their body stripe.

b

Halfaffected fish are missing ~25–50% of the melanocytes in their body stripes.