Tanshinone 1 has been used:
- to test its hematopoiesis effects on human leukemia cell lines and zebrafish xenograft models
- to study its anti-cancer effects on two breast cancer cell lines (MCF7 and MDA-MB-23)
- as a reference standard to quantify the bioactive component S. miltiorrhiza extract (SME) using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)