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. 2014 Sep 4;7:424. doi: 10.1186/1756-3305-7-424

Table 1.

IC 50 values for ferroquine (FQ), hydroxyl-ferroquine (FQ-OH), ruthenoquine (RQ), chloroquine (CQ) and mefloquine (MQ) in non-cancerous MRC-5 and HeLa cancer cells

Complex IC 50 MRC-5 (µM) IC 50 HeLa (µM)
Cisplatin 7.9  ± 1.2 11.5  ± 2.9
FQ 24.4  ± 0.9 10.1  ± 0.3
FQ-OH 22.6  ± 1.2 16.8  ± 1.5
RQ 21.9  ± 2.6 8.8  ± 0.41
CQ 55.1  ± 1.3 87.0  ± 1.5
MQ 16.7  ± 0.2 6.7  ± 0.7

Cisplatin was used as positive control. Standard deviations are shown in superscript.