Research Article
Antimicrobial, Cytotoxic, and Antioxidant Potential of a Novel Flavone “6,7,4′-Trimethyl Flavone” Isolated from Wulfenia amherstiana
Table 9
Brine shrimp lethality assay (cytotoxic activity of TMF).
| Material | Dose (μg/ml/ml) | No. of shrimps | No. of survivors | Mortality % | LD50 (μg/ml) |
| 6,7,4′-trimethyl flavone | 1000 | 30 | 3 | 90 | 127.014 | 750 | 30 | 6 | 80 | 500 | 30 | 9 | 70 | 100 | 30 | 15 | 50 | 50 | 30 | 21 | 30 |
| Positive control etoposide | 1000 | 30 | 6 | 80 | 8.997 | 750 | 30 | 8 | 76.7 | 500 | 30 | 8 | 73.3 | 100 | 30 | 10 | 66.7 | 50 | 30 | 12 | 60 |
| Negative control sea water | 1000 | 30 | 30 | 0 | — | 750 | 30 | 30 | 0 | 500 | 30 | 30 | 0 | 100 | 30 | 30 | 0 | 50 | 30 | 30 | 0 |
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