Potential of Natural Antioxidants for Upregulating Apoptosis in Cervical Cancer Cells: A Cellular and Molecular Study

Table 2

Protein expressions of caspase3, p53, Bax, and Bcl2 relative to those of B-actin.

	Caspase3	p53	Bax	Bcl2	Bax/Bcl2
Control	0.67 ± 0.01^g	0.56 ± 0.02^h	0.55 ± 0.01^h	0.44 ± 0.01^g	1.26 ± 0.02^i
Ge	1.15 ± 0.02^d	0.91 ± 0.01^e	1.67 ± 0.02^c	0.7 ± 0.02^c	2.35 ± 0.02^e
Qu	1.08 ± 0.01^e	0.81 ± 0.01^f	1.52 ± 0.01^d	0.59 ± 0.01^e	2.61 ± 0.05^d
Cit	0.82 ± 0.01^f	0.61 ± 0.02^g	1.43 ± 0.02^e	0.43 ± 0.01^g	3.67 ± 0.03^a
Cis	1.42 ± 0.03^c	1.38 ± 0.02^c	2.35 ± 0.02^b	0.84 ± 0.02^a	2.84 ± 0.01^c
Ge + Cit	0.83 ± 0.02^f	0.65 ± 0.01^g	1.10 ± 0.02^g	0.65 ± 0.02^d	1.66 ± 0.03^h
Ge + Qu	0.84 ± 0.01^f	0.78 ± 0.01^f	1.17 ± 0.02^f	0.52 ± 0.02^f	2.27 ± 0.02^f
Ge + Cit + Qu	1.19 ± 0.01^d	1.13 ± 0.02^d	1.65 ± 0.01^c	0.75 ± 0.02^b	2.14 ± 0.02^g
Ge + Qu + Cis	1.49 ± 0.02^b	1.79 ± 0.02^b	2.37 ± 0.02^b	0.77 ± 0.01^b	3.06 ± 0.02^b
Ge + Qu + Cit + Cis	1.57 ± 0.03^a	2.02 ± 0.02^a	2.71 ± 0.03^a	0.87 ± 0.01^a	3.11 ± 0.01^b

The Bax to Bcl2 ratio was also estimated. Letters show significance between cell groups. Results are expressed as the mean ± standard deviation. N = 3.