Journal: Scientific Reports
Article Title: Integrated safety and microbiota profiling of fulvic acid formulations across in vitro and in vivo models
doi: 10.1038/s41598-026-37331-2
Figure Lengend Snippet: Genotoxic effect observed on LoVo (left) and HepG2 (right) cell lines after 24 h incubation with tested preparations containing fulvic acid (MLG-50, MLG-A50) in the range of 1:8192–1:32768. Nucleus damage presented as tail DNA [%] (Lucia Comet Assay™, Laboratory Imaging). PBS was used as a non-treated control (NTC), and 50 µg/mL H 2 O 2 as a treated control. For each independent experiment, 50–100 nucleoids were randomly analyzed per condition. Data are shown as mean ± standard error of the mean (SEM) from four independent experiments ( n = 4). Statistics were performed using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) followed by Dunnett’s multiple comparisons test; * indicates statistical significance versus the non-treated control (NTC) ( p < 0.05). Criteria for interpretation of damage levels were as follows: ≤5%—no or minor damage; 5–20%—low damage; 20–40%—moderate damage; 40–75%—high damage; >75%—severe damage.
Article Snippet: The L929 mouse skin fibroblasts (CCL-1, ATCC, USA) and THP1-BlueTM NF-κB reporter cells (InvivoGen, USA) were cultured in RPMI-1640 medium (Gibco, USA), human colorectal adenocarcinoma LoVo cells (CCL-229, ATCC, USA) were cultured in DMEM/F12 medium (Gibco, USA), and human liver carcinoma HepG2 cells (HB-8065, ATCC, USA) were maintained in DMEM (Gibco, USA).
Techniques: Incubation, Lucia Comet Assay, Imaging, Control