Activities of Ten Essential Oils towards Propionibacterium acnes and PC-3, A-549 and MCF-7 Cancer Cells
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results and Discussion
2.1. Anti-bacterial activity
cinnamon | rose | thyme | chamomile | lavender | jasmine | grapefruit | lemon | ginger | mint | |
MIC | 0.016 | 0.031 | 0.016 | 0.125 | 0.125 | 0.500 | 0.250 | 0.250 | 0.250 | 0.250 |
MBC | 0.016 | 0.031 | 0.016 | 0.125 | 0.125 | 0.500 | 0.250 | 0.250 | 0.250 | 0.250 |
2.2. Time-kill curves
2.3. Cytotoxic activity towards cancer cells
cinnamon | rose | thyme | chamomile | lavender | jasmine | grapefruit | lemon | ginger | mint | |
PC-3 | 0.012 | 0.040 | 0.010 | 0.071 | 0.050 | 0.022 | 0.094 | 0.083 | 0.077 | 0.088 |
A549 | 0.017 | 0.055 | 0.011 | 0.067 | 0.133 | 0.012 | 0.100 | 0.061 | 0.107 | ------- |
MCF-7 | 0.076 | 0.074 | 0.030 | 0.072 | 0.142 | 0.077 | ------- | 0.143 | ------- | ------- |
3. Experimental
3.1. Essential oils
3.2. Maintenance of Proprionibacterium acnes
3.3. Disc diffusion assay
3.4. Determinition of MICs and MBCs values
3.5. Time-kill dynamic curves
3.6. Maintenance of human cancer cell lines
3.7. Cytotoxicity assay
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
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Zu, Y.; Yu, H.; Liang, L.; Fu, Y.; Efferth, T.; Liu, X.; Wu, N. Activities of Ten Essential Oils towards Propionibacterium acnes and PC-3, A-549 and MCF-7 Cancer Cells. Molecules 2010, 15, 3200-3210. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules15053200
Zu Y, Yu H, Liang L, Fu Y, Efferth T, Liu X, Wu N. Activities of Ten Essential Oils towards Propionibacterium acnes and PC-3, A-549 and MCF-7 Cancer Cells. Molecules. 2010; 15(5):3200-3210. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules15053200
Chicago/Turabian StyleZu, Yuangang, Huimin Yu, Lu Liang, Yujie Fu, Thomas Efferth, Xia Liu, and Nan Wu. 2010. "Activities of Ten Essential Oils towards Propionibacterium acnes and PC-3, A-549 and MCF-7 Cancer Cells" Molecules 15, no. 5: 3200-3210. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules15053200
APA StyleZu, Y., Yu, H., Liang, L., Fu, Y., Efferth, T., Liu, X., & Wu, N. (2010). Activities of Ten Essential Oils towards Propionibacterium acnes and PC-3, A-549 and MCF-7 Cancer Cells. Molecules, 15(5), 3200-3210. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules15053200