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Table 4 Anticancer activity of C. angustifolia extracts against HCEC, Hep2, HeLa, and Mcf-7cell lines

From: Pharmacologically active flavonoids from the anticancer, antioxidant and antimicrobial extracts of Cassia angustifolia Vahl

Cell Lines

Extracts

% Cell death

I.C50

100 μg/μL

150 μg/μL

200 μg/μL

250 μg/μL

μg/μL

HCEC

Methanol

2.3 ± 0.76

1.83 ± 0.76

3.43 ± 0.50*

13.7 ± 2.42*

21.09

Ethanol

1.2 ± 0.52

6.23 ± 1.02*

9.20 ± 0.81*

12.8 ± 1.01*

16.23

 

Taxol

0.0 ± 0.0

0.0 ± 0.0

0.0 ± 0.0

0.0 ± 0.0

0.0

 

Tamoxifen

14.5 ± 0.5

19.3 ± 0.7

26 ± 0.5

26.8 ± 0.7

6.29

Hep2

Ethanol

6.06 ± 0.49**

11.83 ± 0.65**

21.0 ± 0.90*

28.26 ± 0.25*

7.28

Taxol

26.5 ± 0.5

31.76 ± 0.66

35.53 ± 0.25

45.16 ± 0.60

3.97

HeLa

Methanol

16.7 ± 0.70**

22.56 ± 0.40**

27.73 ± 0.2**

32.46 ± 0.61**

5.45

Ethanol

5.46 ± 0.40**

15.53 ± 0.37**

18.43 ± 0.4**

22.9 ± .075**

8.18

Taxol

11.46 ± 0.40

19.7 ± 0.51

24.63 ± 0.50

30.56 ± 0.45

6.07

MCF-7

Methanol

23.33 ± 0.7**

26.23 ± 0.25**

42.4 ± 0.36**

43.6 ± 0.45**

4.0

Ethanol

6.8 ± 0.52*

11.5 ± 0.37**

16.1 ± 0.1**

23.56 ± 0.45**

8.79

Tamoxifen

12.46 ± 0.40

17.36 ± 0.55

24.63 ± 0.50

28.56 ± 0.45

6.4

  1. Taxol and Tamoxifen are standard anticancer drugs taken as positive controls. Values represents the mean ± standard deviation of three replicates (n = 3)
  2. (*), and (**), significant at level P ≤ 0.01 and 0.001, respectively