Mechanism of apoptotic effects induced selectively by ursodeoxycholic acid on human hepatoma cell lines

Table 1 UDCA induces apoptosis of HepG2, BEL7402 and L-02 cell lines (means ± SD, n = 3)

UDCA mmol/L	Apoptosis rate (%)
	HepG2	BEL7402	L-02
0 (control)	2.58 ± 0.26	2.02 ± 0.13	3.03 ± 0.12
0.1	8.4 ± 1.6b	9.3 ± 2.0b	3.11 ± 0.21a
0.4	19.0 ± 3.0b	17.2 ± 1.7b	3.66 ± 0.13a
0.8	36.0 ± 6.0b	37.0 ± 5.0b	4.29 ± 0.23a
1.0	42.0 ± 6.0b	44.0 ± 4.0b	4.58 ± 0.18a

^aP > 0.05,

^bP < 0.01, vs control.