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. 2020 Jul 25;20:236. doi: 10.1186/s12906-020-03023-1

Table 4.

Antiproliferative activity of 18 different EBP samples from 16 regions of South Korea pollen ethanol extracts toward 5 cancer cell lines

Sample PC-3 cell MCF-7 cell A549 cell NCI-H727 AGS cell
IC50, mg/mL IC50, mg/mL IC50, mg/mL IC50, mg/mL IC50, mg/mL
BP1 6.6 ± 0.32def 1.5 ± 0.17ab 15.1 ± 0.14cde 4.6 ± 0.54bcd 6.8 ± 0.05c
BP2 5.2 ± 0.21bcd 1.4 ± 0.13a 15.3 ± 0.05cde 2.7 ± 0.27a 6.9 ± 0.09c
BP3 7.0 ± 1.36ef 12.7 ± 0.55j > 25 6.7 ± 0.79efg 6.7 ± 0.05c
BP4 14.4 ± 0.07i 5.1 ± 0.50fgh 18.5 ± 2.31ef 9.6 ± 0.24 h 6.8 ± 0.04c
BP5 2.9 ± 0.28a 3.7 ± 0.24cdef 8.0 ± 0.33b 3.2 ± 0.08ab 3.4 ± 0.09ab
BP6 9.9 ± 0.61 h 2.8 ± 0.13abcde 8.8 ± 0.46b 3.9 ± 0.05abc 3.4 ± 0.04ab
BP7 4.0 ± 0.09abc 0.9 ± 0.11a 5.0 ± 0.18a 4.8 ± 0.29bcd 2.5 ± 0.15ab
BP8 2.7 ± 0.29a 5.9 ± 0.55hi 13.2 ± 0.59 cd 5.4 ± 0.22cde 4.1 ± 0.20b
BP9 3.8 ± 0.31ab 3.4 ± 0.51bcdef 9.1 ± 0.68b 3.4 ± 0.24ab 3.4 ± 0.06ab
BP10 6.5 ± 0.45def 3.5 ± 0.54cdef 14.8 ± 0.38cde 9.2 ± 0.37 h 6.1 ± 0.59c
BP11 3.3 ± 0.12ab 1.9 ± 0.20abc 12.6 ± 0.38c 5.2 ± 0.46cde 2.4 ± 0.16ab
BP12 3.4 ± 0.19ab 4.5 ± 0.64efgh 14.9 ± 1.56cde 17.7 ± 0.33 k 8.7 ± 1.64d
BP13 8.9 ± 0.09gh 6.8 ± 0.46i 17.0 ± 0.63def 10.9 ± 0.17i 8.0 ± 0.27 cd
BP14 6.9 ± 0.08def 3.9 ± 0.40defg 17.8 ± 0.14ef 7.1 ± 0.21 fg 6.1 ± 0.01c
BP15 8.1 ± 0.33 fg 5.5 ± 0.93ghi > 25 12.8 ± 0.79j 6.7 ± 0.13c
BP16 5.7 ± 0.6719cde 2.4 ± 0.20abcd 20.6 ± 1.13f 11.5 ± 0.40i 7.2 ± 0.07c
BP17 4.2 ± 0.18abc 2.3 ± 0.21abcd 12.0 ± 0.35c 6.0 ± 0.57dfe 6.0 ± 0.20c
BP18 4.3 ± 0.14abc 2.3 ± 0.06abcd 19.9 ± 1.91f 7.8 ± 0.38 g 3.7 ± 0.07b
CNBP 3.3 ± 0.18ab 2.8 ± 0.31abcde 16.1 ± 0.11cde 2.8 ± 0.11a 1.8 ± 0.04a
Cisplatin 0.081 ± 0.0053 0.005 ± 0.0022 0.022 ± 0.0006 0.004 ± 0.0003 0.035 ± 0.0015

CNBP Chinese bee pollen

Different letter (a-k) in the same row indicate significant difference (p < 0.05)