Table 1: In vitro growth inhibitory activity of compounds on normal and tumor cells.

Compound Vero A549 MDA-MB-231
- µM ± SD µM ± SD µM ± SD
N-methyl-nitroimidazole 27.00 ± 2.8 17.00 ± 1.7 16.67 ± 2.3
N-ethyl-nitroimidazole 33.00 ± 7.1 14.67 ± 2.5 17.33 ± 2.1
N-propyl-nitroimidazole 34.00 ± 5.7 19.33 ± 3.2 21.50 ± 4.9
N-butyl-nitroimidazole 33.50 ± 6.4 32.33 ± 3.1 17.00 ± 1.7