Research Article

Effects of Two Fullerene Derivatives on Monocytes and Macrophages

Table 1

Fullerene cytotoxicity on primary and stabilized cells of lymphoid and myeloid derivation.

Cell linesPrimary cultures
U937U937_PMABJABMonocytesMDM_LPSLymphocytes

Fullerene 127 μM34 μM40 μM>>50 μM>50 μM>50 μM
Fullerene 217 μM32 μM24 μM>>50 μM>50 μM>50 μM

Cells (105/well) were treated in complete medium with fullerene 1 and fullerene 2 for 24 hr and then subjected to MTT test. IC50 values were obtained (interpolation with GraphPad InStat) from data of repeated experiments; each of them are being with samples at least in triplicate.