Research Article
Toxicity of Volatile Methylated Species of Bismuth, Arsenic, Tin, and Mercury in Mammalian Cells In Vitro
Table 3
Comparison of toxicity of volatile to nonvolatile species (exposure time: 1 h; n.t.: not tested).
| Volatile compound | Cell type |
LC50 | Nonvolatile compound | Cell type |
LC50 | Literature |
| Me4Sn | CHO | n.ct. (up to 400 μM) | Me3SnCl | CHO | n.ct. (up to 5 mM) | [20] | Me2AsI | CHO | 11.2 | Me2AsOH | CHO | 10 | [19] | Me2AsI | HepG2 | 10.8 | Me2AsOH | HepG2 | 18 | [22] | Me3As | CHO | 450 | Me3AsO | CHO | n.ct. (up to 500 μM) | [19] | Me3As | HepG2 | 85.9 | Me3AsO | HepG2 | n.ct. (up to 5000 μM) | [22] | Me3Bi | HepG2 | 194 | MeBi(III) | HepG2 | 350 | [23] | Me2Hg | CHO | 10.8 | MeHgCl | CHO | n.t. | |
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