Symbiotic Plant Peptides Eliminate Candida albicans Both In Vitro and in an Epithelial Infection Model and Inhibit the Proliferation of Immortalized Human Cells
Figure 3
Viability/metabolic activity (a) and proliferation ability (b) of PK E6/E7 vaginal epithelial cells after NCR treatment. (a) The amount of formazan formed after treatment was measured by the absorbance at 560 nm. (b) The relative amount of viable, attached cells 40 hours after treatment was measured by RTCA. The number of cells that were attached when peptides were replaced with CKM after the treatment was considered as 100%. PBgluc: mock treatment; primycin: cytotoxic control. Significant () difference between the connected treatments. •The observed cell number significantly () differs from that of the PBgluc and primycin controls.
