Lyoniside and saracoside are cytotoxic to promastigotes and intracellular amastigotes, they demonstrate strong anti-leishmanial efficacies in BALB/c mice model of leishmaniasis, suggests that these two compounds potential anti-leishmanial candidates.

Methyl nomilinate from citrus can modulate cell cycle regulators to induce cytotoxicity in human colon cancer (SW480) cells in vitro.

Bromophenol blue is an acid phthalein dye. Bromophenol blue is used as a tracking dye for electrophoresis.