Anticancer Properties of Different Solvent Extracts of Cucumis melo L. Seeds and Whole Fruit and Their Metabolite Profiling Using HPLC and GC-MS

Table 3

Effect of phytoextracts on cancer cell line, HCT116.

Drug/phytoextracts	Concentration	Percentage cell viability
Control/untreated cell lines	—
Curcumin	15 μM
		Methanol extract	Distilled water extract	Chloroform extract
Whole fruit	50 μg/mL
Seeds
Whole fruit	150 μg/mL
Seeds
Whole fruit	250 μg/mL
Seeds
Whole fruit	350 μg/mL
Seeds
Whole fruit	450 μg/mL
Seeds

Comparative cytotoxic effect of different solvent extracts of honeydew melon on HCT116 cell lines after 24 h of incubation. Data is expressed as the (each treatment, ). indicates in comparison with control/untreated cells by one-way ANOVA followed by Dunnett’s test for multiple comparisons.