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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 13.
Published in final edited form as: Nanomedicine. 2011 Aug 10;8(4):440–451. doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2011.07.011

Table 3.

Inhibitory concentration (IC50 in μg/ml) of curcumin formulations

Cell line DMSO- curcumin Conventional curcumin liposomes HPγCD- curcumin liposomes
KHOS 22.8 ± 1.9   5.4 ± 0.9   6.4 ± 0.7
MCF-7    20 ± 1.8 10.2 ± 0.8 11.5 ± 1.1
Skin fibroblast    27 ± 5    20 ± 3.5    22 ± 2.1

IC50 – Concentration necessary to inhibit 50% of cell growth.