Research Article

Cytotoxicological Investigation of the Essential Oil and the Extracts of Cotula cinerea and Salvia verbenaca from Morocco

Table 1

IC50 (µg/mL) values obtained through the cytotoxicity of the essential oil and the extracts of Cotula cinerea and Salvia verbenaca against RD and Vero cell lines by MTT assay.

PlantsExtractsRD cell lineVero cell line

Cotula cinereaHexane57.21±3.43142.27±11.33
Ethyl acetate187.52±6.27212.83±9.02
n-Butanol>500447.38±6.52
Essential oil173.05±4.4672.72±2.18

Salvia verbenacaHexane474.62±1,31>500
Ethyl acetate>500223.63±1,61
n-Butanol>500>500