Evaluating Medicinal Plants for Anticancer Activity

Figure 1

Effect of whole plant extracts 5, 10, and 11 on growth of human tumor cell lines—concentration dependency. Whole plant extracts 5 ((a), (b)), 10 ((c), (d)), and 11 ((e), (f)) were added to the indicated cells (10⁵ cells/100 μL) at 1.5 mg/mL ((a), (c), (e)) or 0.75 mg/mL ((b), (d), (f)) for 48 h, after which cell viability was determined as described in Materials and Methods. Results are expressed as percentage of death caused by each plant extract, as compared to control cells (treated with DMSO/PBS at the same concentration as the plant extracts). of independent experiments performed on each tested cell line. Each column represents the mean ± standard deviation of 1 to 8 independent experiments.

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