Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Plant Alnus glutinosa (Betulaceae)

Common Names
Black Alder
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
3-BETA-HYDROXYGLUTIN-5-EN 0 Leaf *
ALNINCANONE 0 Plant *
ALNULIN 0 Bark *
ALNUSFOLIENDIOLONE 0 Leaf *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Bark *
BRASSINOLIDE 3 Plant *
CASTASTERONE 0 Plant *
CITRULLIN 0 Bark *
DELTA-AMYRENONE 0 Leaf *
EMODIN 58 Bark *
GLUTINONE 0 Bark *
HYPEROSIDE 30 Bark *
L-ORNITHINE 0 Leaf *
LUPEOL 21 Bark *
PHLOBAPHENE 0 Bark *
PROTOALNULIN 0 Bark *
SUCROSE 14 Leaf *
TANNIN 35 Bark 200000.0 0.52 *
TARAXEROL 2 Bark *
TARAXERONE 0 Plant *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Immunosuppressant 2 (View) *
iNOS-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
Juvabional 1 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Leucocytogenic 1 (View) *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
MAO-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
MMP-2-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
MMP-7-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
MMP-9-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
Mutagenic 1 (View) *
NO-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
Pesticide 6 (View) *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
Phytohormonal 1 (View) Russell, G. B., Phytochemical resources for crop protection, N. Z. J. Technol., 2, 1986, 127-134.
Preservative 1 (View) Merck 11th Edition
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor 1 (View) Mueller, S. O., Stopper, H. 1999. Characterization of the Genotoxicity of Anthraquinones in Mammalian Cells. Biochimica & Biophysica Acta, 1428: 406-414.
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
Psychotropic 1 (View) Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
PTK-Inhibitor 1 (View) *