4,8-DiMeIQx (1 μg per assay) showed mutagenicity to Salmonella typhimurium TA98 treated with S9 mixture, inducing 206000 revertant mutant colonies per microgram, accounting for 9% of the total mutagenicity of bacterial grade extracts.
4,8-DiMeIQx (100 nM-5 μM; 24 h) exhibits selective neurotoxicity on dopaminergic neurons in E17 primary midbrain cultures, with a threshold dose of 100 nM. Significant loss of dopaminergic neurons was observed at all test concentrations between 100 nM and 5 μ M, while non dopaminergic neurons were not affected.
4,8-DiMeIQx (100 nM -5 μM; 24 h) did not cause significant changes in axonal density of dopaminergic or non dopaminergic neurons after incubation at a concentration of 100 nM -5 μ M in the E17 primary midbrain culture system for 24 h.