TABLE 3

Cytotoxicity of pentamidine and furamidine in CHO-hOCT2 cells and the mock CHO cells


Drug

hOCT2 IC50

Mock IC50

-Fold Changea
μM μM
Pentamidine 152.7 ± 17.3 161.8 ± 14.4 1.06
Furamidine
14.7 ± 1.5
13.8 ± 1.6
0.94
  • a -Fold increase in the sensitivity of the transfected cells to pentamidine and furamidine cytotoxicity compared with the mock cells incubated under identical conditions.