Apoptosis induced by nucleosides in the human hepatoma HepG2

Table 1 Effects of nucleosides on HepG2 cell viability by MTS assay¹

Treatment	Inosine (%)	Cytidine (%)	Uridine (%)	Thymidine (%)	Adenosine(%)	Guanosine(%)
0 mmol/L	103.9±3.5a	101.8±1.6a	103.5±3.5a	102.2±1.9a	101.3±1.2a	103.1±2.7a
7.5 mmol/L	94.0±1.2a	92.0±3.8 a	100.6±6.6a	101.5±5.1a
15 mmol/L	69.5±1.8 a	75.6±1.7 a	99.1±2.8a	99.0±0.3a
30 mmol/L	67.7±0.7a	61.4±5.9a	86.1±1.3a	84.5±3.2a
0.1 mmol/L					93.0±5.2a	86.3±3.5a
0.3 mmol/L					80.9±2.0a	89.4±2.1a
0.5 mmol/L					78.4±1.8a	86.3±3.3a

¹ Cells were incubated with different treatments for 12 h. Cell viability was measured with MTS assay kits. Values are expressed as the mean±SD of six independent experiments.

^aP<0.05 vs 0 mmol/L.