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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
BUTYLIDENE-PHTHALIDE 10 Seed Essent. Oil 4000.0 *
BUTYLIDENE-PHTHALIDE 10 Stem Essent. Oil 12000.0 *
BUTYLIDENE-PHTHALIDE 10 Et 12000.0 *
BUTYLPHENYL-KETONE 0 Plant *
BUTYLPHENYL-KETONE 0 Seed 38.0 60.0 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
C-PRENYL-COUMARINS 0 Seed Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
CADMIUM 3 Root 0.0 0.4 -0.50 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Leaf *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Root *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Seed Wealth of India.
CALCIUM 28 Fruit 1680.0 8000.0 0.96 *
CALCIUM 28 Root 340.0 3635.0 -0.41 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
CALCIUM 28 Seed 170.0 20776.0 3.05 *
CALCIUM 28 Pt 313.0 11918.0 -1.41 *
CAMPESTEROL 2 Seed 50.0 -0.52 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
CAMPESTEROL 2 Pt Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
CAMPHENE 9 Leaf Essent. Oil 1000.0 -0.84 *
CAMPHENE 9 Seed Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
CAMPHENE 9 Seed Essent. Oil *
CAPRIC-ACID 3 Leaf 200.0 213.0 -1.00 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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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 *