Cinobufotalin has been used:
- as a standard to bound them with the Fab fragment of an anti-digoxin antibody (Digibind) to rapidly detect its presence in blood by the fluorescence polarization immunoassay for digitoxin
- to treat human cancer cell lines/MCF-7 cells to examine the steroid receptor coactivator-3 (SRC-3) protein concentrations and evaluate its efficacy as SRC small-molecule inhibitors (SMIs)
- as a standard to calibrate the high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and calculate the total quantity of bufadienolides present in the nuchal gland fluid of Rhabdophis tigrinus