Table 2.

The in vitro effectiveness of quercetin loaded phytosome and quercetin alone on L. major promastigote incubated for different periods. Data are expressed as the mean ± SD (n = 3)

Drugs	Concentration	0 h	6 h	12 h	24 h	72 h	P value
Quercetin loaded phytosome	100 µg/ml	96.43	81.39 ± 4.11	73.46 ± 3.26	55.02 ± 2.76	32.39 ± 3.27	0.001
	200 µg/ml	97.68	77.38 ± 5.33	68.28 ± 4.72	44.29 ± 3.48	19.44 ± 2.84
	400 µg/ml	96.34	61.47 ± 5.84	34.77 ± 4.37	3.32 ± 2.31	00.00 ± 00
Quercetin	100 µg/ml	98.23	87.43 ± 4.66	77.76 ± 4.78	58.27 ± 4.19	34.55 ± 3.56
	200 µg/ml	99.43	81.56 ± 6.49	72.13 ± 5.84	46.83 ± 3.52	23.68 ± 3.41
	400 µg/ml	97.26	74.27 ± 3.37	69.32 ± 4.39	31.39 ± 4.85	8.28 ± 2.06
NC		99.22	98.46 ± 1.21	96.48 ± 1.54	85.16 ± 2.48	56.92 ± 4.72
PC		98.50	55.73 ± 2.44	31.48 ± 3.81	00.00 ± 00	00.00 ± 00

NC Negative control, PC Positive control (Glucantime)