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. 2018 Jul 3;8(43):24188–24202. doi: 10.1039/c8ra03666g

Anti-tumor activity of hederagenin both in vitro and in vivo.

Tumors Cell lines Drug concentration Inhibition rates IC50/E50 References
In vitro studies
Colon carcinoma SW480 169.24 μM 70.53% NA 5
Non-small cell lung carcinoma, breast carcinoma A549, BT20 100 μM 99.1%, 99.7% 26.3 μM, 11.8 μM (IC50) 6
Non-small cell lung carcinoma, ovarian carcinoma, skin malignant melanoma, central nervous system tumor, adenocarcinomas of the colon and rectum A549, SK-OV-3, SK-MEL-2, XF498, HCT15 NA NA 31.73 μM, 35.96 μM, 46.54 μM, 48.66 μM, 38.08 μM (IC50) 2
Hepatocarcinoma, ovarian carcinoma, prostatic carcinoma, non-small cell lung carcinoma, endometrial carcinoma, esophageal carcinoma, glioma, gastric carcinoma, gastric adenocarcinoma SMM-7721,Bel-7402, H08910, PC-3M,A549, HCT-8,CaEs-17,U251, BGC-823,SGC-7901 42.31 μM 91.9%, 86.8%,82.1%, 86.6%, 91.4%, 77.8%,88.9%, 83.3%, 81.6%, 83.6% 8.08 μM,13.71 μM,12.63 μM,13.18 μM,11.11 μM,13.31 μM,12.10 μM,15.76 μM,15.46 μM,13.58 μM (IC50) 7
Promyelocytic leukemia, leukemia, lymphoma, lymphomatic leukemia, hepatocarcinoma, gastric carcinoma HL-60,U-937, P-388, L-1210, HepG-2, SNU-C5 NA NA 42.6 μM, 19.3 μM, 61.0 μM, 49.4 μM, 8.9 μM, 42.8 μM (IC50) 8
Prostatic carcinoma DU145 211.55 μM 74% NA 12
Promyelocytic leukemia HL-60 10–40 μM, 40–50 μM Inhibited, cell lethal NA 13
Colon carcinoma LoVo 4.0 μM 91.35% 17 μM (IC50) 15
Melanoma, ovarian carcinoma, colon adenocarcinoma, breast adenocarcinoma, non-small cell lung carcinoma, thyroid carcinoma 518A2, A2780, HT29, MCF7, A549, 8505C NA NA 34.9 μM, 19.9 μM, 50.0 μM, 25.7 μM, 29.0 μM, 38.0 μM (EC50) 17
Hepatocarcinoma HePG2 NA NA 16.04 μM (IC50) 21
Colon carcinoma LoVo 105.78 μM 86% NA 22
Gastric carcinoma MGC-803 105.78 μM 86.89% NA 23
In vivo studies
Breast carcinoma, non-small cell lung carcinoma, hepatocarcinoma, gastric carcinoma, colon carcinoma, ovarian carcinoma, endometrial carcinoma, myeloid leukemia, esophageal squamous carcinoma MCF-7, A549, Hep3B, MGC-803, LoVo, HO-8910PM, HEC-1, K562, Eca-109 bearing BALB/c nude mice 405 mg kg−1 65%, 69.56%, 65.57%, 70.69%, 69.49%, 68.85%, 70.97%, 71.88%, 69.84% NA 9
Hepatocarcinoma H22 bearing mice 200 mg kg−1 42.75% NA 11
Head and neck cancer HN9-cisR bearing nude mice 200 mg kg−1 Suppressed NA 14