TABLE 4

Cytotoxicity of pentamidine and furamidine in CHO-hOCT3 cells and the mock CHO cells


Drug

hOCT3 IC50

Mock IC50

-Fold Changea
μM μM
Pentamidine 178.3 ± 16.3 161.8 ± 14.4 0.91
Furamidine
16.1 ± 2.1
13.8 ± 1.6
0.86
  • a -Fold increase in the sensitivity of the transfected cells to pentamidine and furamidine cytotoxicity compared with the mock cells incubated under identical conditions.