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. 2016 Dec 13;16:515. doi: 10.1186/s12906-016-1492-3

Table 2.

EC50 values of Tunisian thermophilic cyanobacterium Leptolyngbya sp

BME CME RME Vit C/EDTA
DPPH radicals scavenging assay 0.07 nd nd 0.07
Ferric Chelating ability nd 0.59 0.63 0.59
Hydroxyl radical scavenging assay 0.38 nd nd 1.17

EC50 values were obtained by interpolation from non-linear regression analysis; nd not detected

Methanol Extracts: Biomass (BME), Capsular polysaccharides (CME) and Releasing polysaccharides (RME)