Table 2.

Percent cell survival of different human tumor cell lines against different concentrations of essential oils of berries and leaves of J. phoenicea L grown in Egypt.

Tumor cell line	Oil conc. µg/ml	% cell survival ±SEM
		Leaf oil (100µl/disc)	Berry oil (100µl/disc)	Cisplatin
bU251	0	100 ± 0.06	100 ± 0.10	100 ± 0.07
	1	13.5 ± 0.03	17.2 ± 0.07	60.9 ± 0.07
	2.5	14.0 ± 0.03	7.7 ± 0.06	56.4 ± 0.05
	5	3.3 ± 0.01	5.2 ± 0.07	55.5± 0.07
	10	7.5 ± 0.04	7.0 ± 0.04	49.4± 0.05
cH460	0	100 ± 0.08	100 ± 0.08	100 ± 0.07
	1	34.0 ± 0.05	23.5 ± 0.04	79.6 ± 0.02
	2.5	21.6 ± 0.06	27.1 ± 0.03	66.5 ± 0.05
	5	16.7 ± 0.02	19.9 ± 0.06	48.8 ± 0.03
	10	9.8 ± 0.03	18.0 ± 0.02	40.1 ± 0.0
dHepg2	0	100 ± 0.09	100 ± 0.07	100 ± 0.10
	1	44.2 ± 0.06	24.7 ± 0.0	60.1 ± 0.04
	2.5	32.8 ± 0.05	29.9 ± 0.03	59.3 ± 0.06
	5	22.0 ± 1.0	27.0 ± 0.05	52.4 ± 0.04
	10	29.6 ± 0.0	37.9 ± 0.09	51.8 ± 0.05
eMCF7	0	100 ± 0.10	100 ± 0.10
	1	52.1 ± 0.04	34.6 ± 0.04
	2.5	42.5 ± 0.07	33.8 ± 0.03	NT
	5	37.1 ± 0.06	33.5 ± 0.04
	10	30.7 ± 0.01	20.6 ± 0.01
fHela	0	100 ± 0.09	100 ± 0.08	100 ± 0.08
	1	73.4 ± 0.08	83.5 ± 0.07	90.3 ± 0.06
	2.5	70.9 ± 0.04	70.6 ± 0.08	42.4 ± 0.02
	5	51.5 ± 0.02	48.7 ± 0.06	17.0 ± 0.04
	10	11.0 ± 0.0	38.2 ± 0.02	5.9 ± 0.02

^aOil concentration (µg/ml) required to reduce cell survival by 50%, ^bbrain tumor cell line, ^clung carcinoma cell line, ^dliver carcinoma cell line, ^ebreast carcinoma cell line, ^fcervix carcinoma cell line. NT: not testes.

Cisplatin: standard antitumor drug.