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Table 2 The in vitro antiproliferative/cytotoxic IC50 values of the CHE, CDE and CME on selected cancer cell lines

From: In vitro antiproliferative/cytotoxic activity on cancer cell lines of a cardanol and a cardol enriched from Thai Apis mellifera propolis

Cancer

cell lines

IC50 (μg/ml)

 

CHE

CDE

CME

BT474

48.3 ± 1.6a

52.6 ± 3.7a

500 ± 50b

Chaco

41.3 ± 3.75a

44.7 ± 0.33a

580 ± 20b

KATO-III

42.5 ± 6.61a

43.8 ± 6.5a

600 ± 50b

SW620

45.3 ± 0.33a

46.0 ± 0.57a

555 ± 7.5b

Hep-G2

52.4 ± 3.7a

53.5 ± 0.5a

605 ± 39.1b

  1. Data are shown as the mean ± 1 SE and are derived from three independent repeats after a 72 h exposure to the test extracts. Means (within and between columns) with a different lowercase superscript letter are significantly different (p < 0.05; Kruskal-Wallis test)