Journal: Molecules
Article Title: Antiviral Activity of Essential Oil from Populus balsamifera L. Buds and Its Major Compounds Against Betacoronavirus HCoV-OC43 Using a Sensitive Cytoprotection Assay
doi: 10.3390/molecules31091496
Figure Lengend Snippet: Antiviral activity of P. balsamifera essential oil. MRC-5 cells were infected with growing concentrations of HCoV-OC43 and treated at concentrations ranged from between 0.2 and 14.4 µg/mL of P. balsamifera essential oil. The EC 50 value (cytoprotection against virus-induced cell death) was then calculated from the generated dose–response curves. The control is represented by the viral curve (VC). For all data, n ≥ 3 (biological replicates). Data are representative of three separate experimental runs.
Article Snippet: The human lung fibroblasts MRC-5 (CCL-171), IMR-90 (CCL-186), and WI-38 (CCL-75) and human colorectal adenocarcinoma HCT-8 (CCL-244) were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC, Manassas, VA, USA).
Techniques: Activity Assay, Infection, Virus, Generated, Control