Figure 1.
Anti-cancer effect of salinomycin in melanoma cell lines. (a) IC50 of eight melanoma cell lines were detected by MTS assay after treated with Sal at the indicated concentrations (0–40 μM) and calculated by GraphPad Prism. (b) SK-Mel-19 cells were treated with different concentrations of Sal for 72 h, and cell viability was tested by MTS assay. (c) Changes in the morphology of SK-Mel-19 cells. Cells after treatment with 1.0 μM Sal for the indicated period of time were examined by phase-contrast microscopy (magnification, × 200). (d) Tumor volume growth curve of five groups. (e) Comparison of the relative tumor proliferation rate VTreatment/VControl of five groups (n = 8). (f) The excised tumors were weighed at the end point. The scatter diagram of tumor weight was shown. (g) Tumor weight inhibition rate of five groups were calculated (n = 8). (*p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001 vs control).