Research Article

Photodynamic Efficiency of Xanthene Dyes and Their Phototoxicity against a Carcinoma Cell Line: A Computational and Experimental Study

Table 1

IC50 (μg mL−1) values under illumination (light dose of 18 J cm−2) and in the dark for the xanthene dyes incubated in HEp-2 cells for .

DyeIC50Dark-IC50

Rose Bengal (RB)11 ± 158 ± 2
Erythrosin B (EB)74 ± 3125 ± 10
Eosin Y (EY)104 ± 7135 ± 8
Fluorescein (FL)370 ± 35630 ± 60

fluorescence rate of the used LED was 19 mW cm−2. The mean values and the standard deviations (m ± sd) for .