Plant Apium graveolens (Apiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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Celery

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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
BERGAPTEN	26	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BERGAPTEN	26	Seed	not available	1.0	-0.89	Duke, 1992 *
BERGAPTEN	26	Shoot	not available	145.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
BERGAPTEN	26	Pt	0.0	0.8	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Fruit	8.0	36.0	-0.08	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Seed	7.5	36.0	1.82	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Pt	1.0	144.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Fruit Essent. Oil	5000.0	43000.0	-0.33	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	5000.0	-0.38	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Seed	55.0	1290.0	0.86	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Seed Essent. Oil	5000.0	43000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ELEMENE	5	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	35000.0	1.68	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ELEMENE	5	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-ELEMENE	5	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ELEMENE	5	Seed	1.0	875.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ELEMENE	5	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	35000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-EUDESMOL	13	Seed	76.0	225.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-HUMULENE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-PHELLANDRENE	3	Fruit	not available	2000.0	-0.13	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE	3	Seed Essent. Oil	200.0	2000.0	-1.03	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Bradycardiac	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bronchoprotectant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Bronchorelaxant	3	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bruchifuge	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Bruchiphobe	3	Duke, 1992 *
Bufocide	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Calcium-Antagonist	18	Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Antagonist?	1	Biochimica & Biophysica Acta, 1115: 69, 1991.
Calcium-Channel-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Calmodulin-Antagonist	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive	58	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide	16	Martindale's 28th
Candidistat	3	Duke, 1992 *
Capillarigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Capillariprotective	2	Merck 11th Edition
Carcinogenic	10	Duke, 1992 *
Carcinogenic?	2	Martindale's 29th
Cardiac	2	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Cardiodepressant	3	Duke, 1992 *