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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Leaf Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Seed Essent. Oil 1000.0 -1.01 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Essential Oil *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Fruit Essent. Oil 3000.0 14000.0 -0.30 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Leaf Essent. Oil 1000.0 -0.84 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Root Essent. Oil 69000.0 1.00 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Seed 1.0 420.0 -0.37 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Seed Essent. Oil 5000.0 14000.0 -0.65 *
ALPHA-TERPINYL-ACETATE 0 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-TERPINYL-PROPIONATE 0 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Leaf 136.0 266.0 -0.23 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Plant 0.0 64.0 -1.00 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Seed *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Shoot 0.0 64.0 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Pt 3.0 67.0 1.00 *
ALUMINUM 5 Root 0.3 9.0 -0.31 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
AMMONIA 0 Stem 19600.0 *
AMMONIA 0 Pt 15480.0 *
ANGELIC-ACID 1 Plant *
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Nematicide 15 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Nematistat 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neoplastic 2 Martindale's 29th
NEP-Inhibitor 2 *
Nephrotoxic 6 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Neuroexcitant 1 Martindale's 28th
Neurogenic 1 *
Neuroinhibitor 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Neuroprotective 4 *
Neurotoxic 4 R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Neurotransmitter 1 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor 5 *
NO-Genic 3 *
NO-Inhibitor 3 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor 2 *
Nodulation-Signal 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Odontolytic 1 Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 7 Hagerman, A.E. Tannin-Protein Interactions. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.19.
Osteogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Osteolytic 1 *