Table 1.
The percentages of the different types of cell death induced by the extract in both MCF-7 and HFS cells stained with annexin V/propidium iodide as observed by flow cytometry.
| Cell type Concentration | MCF-7 |
HFS |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control | 25% | 50% | 75% | Control | 25% | 50% | 75% | |
| % living cells | 89.45 | 91.4 | 92 | 89.9 | 93.2 | 92.5 | 92.9 | 93.8 |
| P | 0.81 | 0.69 | 1 | 0.75 | 0.95 | 0.82 | ||
| % all dead cells | 10.55 | 8.7 | 8.1 | 10.2 | 6.75 | 8.8 | 7.15 | 8.15 |
| P | 0.83 | 0.7 | 1 | 0.71 | 0.94 | 0.83 | ||
| % early apoptotic cells | 2.95 | 3.1 | 1.1 | 2.3 | 1.4 | 2.5 | 0.8 | 1.4 |
| P | 1 | 0.7 | 0.97 | 0.97 | 0.47 | 0.38 | ||
| % late apoptotic cells | 0.9 | 1.35 | 1.05 | 1.95 | 1.85 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 2.6 |
| P | 0.9 | 1 | 0.51 | 0.74 | 0.74 | 0.48 | ||
| % necrotic cells | 6.7 | 4.25 | 5.95 | 5.9 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 4.85 | 4.15 |
| P | 0.21 | 0.85 | 0.83 | 0.89 | 0.5 | 0.86 | ||
Insignificant differences between each concentration and the control for each cell group, where P > 0.05 by using Dunnett’s test (<control).