Table 1 Antiproliferative activity (IC50 value in μg/mL) of ethanol extract of Taxus Yunnanensis wood against proliferating cells.

From: Understanding of cell death induced by the constituents of Taxus yunnanensis wood

Cell line

Wood (ethanol extract)

Apoptosis

Human tumor cell line

SH-SY5Y (neuroblastoma)

0.98

+

DU-145 (prostate carcinoma)

1.92

+

PANC-1 (pancreatic carcinoma)

0.81

+

T24 (urinary bladder carcinoma)

2.62

+

MDA-MB-231 (breast adenocarcinoma)

0.56

+

Rh30 (rhabdomyosarcoma)

0.42

+

K562 (myelogenous leukemia)

2.56

+

RPMI8226 (myeloma)

1.2

+

DLD-1 (colorectal carcinoma)

3.81

+

DLD-1/5FU

3.46

+

DLD-1/OXA

3.52

+

Non-cancerous cell lines

ASF-4-1 (human fibroblasts)

20.94

H9c2 (rat cardiocytes)

50 < 

TIG-3-20 (human fibroblasts)

2.89

HMEC (human mammary epithelial cells)

50 <