Table 2.
In vitro cytotoxicity of methanol extracts of selected medicinal plants. Tamoxifen was used as positive control
| Plant name | IC50 a value |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCF-7 | HepG2 | WEHI | MDBK | |
| Anchusa azurea Mill. | >100 | >100 | >100 | >100 |
| Biebersteinia multifida DC. | >100 | >100 | >100 | >100 |
| Buxus hyrcana Pojark. | 44.4 | >100 | >100 | >100 |
| Caccinia macranthera (Branks & soland.) | >100 | >100 | >100 | >100 |
| Capparis spinosa L. | >100 | >100 | >100 | >100 |
| Chenopodium butrys L | >100 | >100 | >100 | >100 |
| Convolvulus commutatus Boiss. | >100 | >100 | >100 | >100 |
| Echium italicum L. | >100 | >100 | >100 | >100 |
| Ferula szowitsiana DC. | 29 | 40.6 | 79 | 38 |
| Glaucium oxylobum Boiss.& Buhse | >100 | >100 | >100 | >100 |
| Leontice leontopetalum L. | >100 | >100 | >100 | >100 |
| Parrotia persica (DC.) C. A. Mey | >100 | >100 | 97.4 | >100 |
| Perovskia abrotanoides Karel. | 93 | >100 | 40.6 | 62.3 |
| Stachys turcomanica Trautv. | >100 | >100 | >100 | >100 |
| Zygophyllum fabago L. | >100 | >100 | >100 | >100 |
| Tamoxifen | 6.5 | 13.8 | 89.6 | 19.1 |
a
The concentration at which growth was inhibited by 50%, µg/ml