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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Apium graveolens (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Celery
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
3-ISOBUTYLIDENE-PHTHALIDE 0 Seed Essent. Oil *
3-ISOBUTYLIDENE-PHTHALIDE 0 Shoot 0.0 *
3-ISOVALERIDENE-3A,4-DIHYDROPHTHALIDE 0 Leaf *
3-ISOVALERIDENE-PHTHALIDE 0 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
3-ISOVALIDENE-3A,4-DIHYDROPHTHALIDE 0 Essential Oil 255.0 *
3-ISOVALIDENE-3A,4-DIHYDROPHTHALIDE 0 Leaf 0.0 *
3-ISOVALIDENE-3A,4-DIHYDROPHTHALIDE 0 Seed Essent. Oil 255.0 *
3-ISOVALIDENE-3A,4-DIHYDROPHTHALIDE 0 Shoot 0.0 *
3-ISOVALIDENE-PHTHALIDE 0 Plant 0.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
3-ISOVALIDENE-PHTHALIDE 0 Seed Essent. Oil *
3-ISOVALIDENE-PHTHALIDE 0 Shoot 0.0 *
3-METHYL-4-ETHYL-HEXANE 0 Root Essent. Oil 124000.0 *
3-N-BUTYL-4,5-DIHYDROPHTHALIDE 0 Seed *
3-N-BUTYL-PHTHALIDE 10 Fruit Essent. Oil 108000.0 *
3-N-BUTYL-PHTHALIDE 10 Leaf Essent. Oil 40000.0 *
3-N-BUTYL-PHTHALIDE 10 Seed *
3-N-BUTYL-PHTHALIDE 10 Seed Essent. Oil 108000.0 *
3-N-BUTYLHEXAHYDROPHTHALIDE 0 Seed Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
4-DIHYDROPHTHALIDE 0 Seed 57.0 1500.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
5,6,7-TRIMETHYLPSORALEN 0 Pt Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
COX-1-Inhibitor 4 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 8 *
Culicide 3 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 6 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A1-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inhibitor 3 *
Cytoprotective 2 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Cytotoxic 14 Planta Medica, 57: A113, 1991.
Cytotoxic (Breast) 3 Saqib, Q. N., Hui, Y. H., Anderson, J. E. and McLaughlin, J. L. 1990. Bioactive Furanocoumarins from the Berries of Zanthoxylum americanum. Phytotherapy Research 4(6): 216-219.
Cytotoxic (Colon) 3 Saqib, Q. N., Hui, Y. H., Anderson, J. E. and McLaughlin, J. L. 1990. Bioactive Furanocoumarins from the Berries of Zanthoxylum americanum. Phytotherapy Research 4(6): 216-219.
Cytotoxic (Lung) 2 Saqib, Q. N., Hui, Y. H., Anderson, J. E. and McLaughlin, J. L. 1990. Bioactive Furanocoumarins from the Berries of Zanthoxylum americanum. Phytotherapy Research 4(6): 216-219.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor 4 Jim Duke's personal files.
Demulcent 3 *
Dentifrice 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Deodorant 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Depressant 1 Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermal 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Dermatitigenic 5 *
Detoxicant 2 *