The Protective Effects of Nigella sativa and Its Constituents on Induced Neurotoxicity

Table 1

The AChE inhibitory effects of some phenolic compounds.

Phenolic compounds	EC50
Thymol	0.74
Carvacrol	0.063
TQ	0.14
THQ	0.04
Galantamine	0.00025

(EC₅₀): the effective concentration causing 50% of maximum response in each experiment was measured using the log concentration-response curve. Galantamine (a natural AChE inhibitor) in Table 1 was taken from the study of Jukic et al. [19].