Plant Ailanthus altissima (Simaroubaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Stinktree; Tree Of Heaven

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
1-(1',2'-DIHYDROXYETHYL)-4-METHOXY-BETA-CARBOLINE	0	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1-(2'-HYDROXYETHYL)-4-METHOXY-BETA-CARBOLINE	0	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1-ACETYL-4-METHOXY-BETA-CARBOLINE	0	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1-HYDROXYCANTHIN-6-ONE	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1-METHOXYCANTHIN-6-ONE	3	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1-METHOXYCANTHIN-6-ONE-3N-OXIDE	0	Root Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2,6-DIMETHOXY-P-BENZOQUINONE	3	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2,6-DIMETHOXYQUINONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETYLAMAROLIDE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AILANTHIIN	0	Plant	not available	49600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AILANTHINONE	8	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AILANTHONE	8	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AMAROLIDE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM-OXALATE	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CANTHIN-6-ONE	8	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CANTHIN-6-ONE-3-OXIDE	0	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOLINE-1-CARBOXYLATE	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CELLULOSE	1	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CERYL-ALCOHOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
PTK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer	1	Uda, Y., Price, K. R., Williamson, G., Rhodes, M. J. C. 1997. Induction of the Anticarcinogenic Marker Enzyme, Quinone Reductase, in Murine Hepatoma Cells In Vitro by Flavonoids. Cancer Lett., 120 (2): 213-216.
Spermicide	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Styptic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Teratologic	1	Duke, 1992 *
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor	3	Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225.
Tumorigenic	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Ubiquiot	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Uterosedative	1	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Vasodilator	1	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	3	Hatano, T., Yasuhara, T., Yoshihara, R., Agata, I., Noro, T., and Okuda, T. 1989. Effects of Interaction of Tannins with Co-existing Substances.VII. Inhibitory Effects of Tannins Related Polyphenols on Xanthine Oxidase. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(5): 1224-1229