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
HUMULENE	2	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HUMULENE	2	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HUMULENE-OXIDE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
HYPOXANTHINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYPOXANTHINE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IMPERATORIN	25	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IMPERATORIN	25	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IMPERATORIN	25	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
INDOSTEROL	0	Stem	not available	300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INDOSTEROL	0	Pt	not available	300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INOSINE	8	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INOSINE	8	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INOSITOL	8	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
IRON	6	Fruit	25.0	120.0	-0.05	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Root	3.6	47.0	-0.37	ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
IRON	6	Seed	25.0	571.0	1.95	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Pt	3.0	347.0	1.29	Duke, 1992 *
ISOAMYL-ALCOHOL	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ISOAMYL-ALCOHOL	3	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOBUTYLIDENE	0	Leaf	not available	32.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Ovicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Oviposition-Stimulant	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ovulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Oxidant	2	Larson, R.A. 1987. Review Article Number 30. The Antioxidants of Higher Plants. Phytochemistry. 27: 969-978.
Oxytocic	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Ozone-Scavenger	1	Duke, 1992 *
P21-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
P450-1A-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
P450-2B-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
P450-2B1-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inducer	2	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor	1	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Paralytic	1	Oriental Materia Medica (three volumes by Dr. Hsu and collaborators)
Parasiticide	1	Martindale's 29th
Parasympathomimetic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Pediculicide	1	Martindale's 29th
Percutaneostimulant	2	Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfume	4	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.
Perfumery	43	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry