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Plant Apium graveolens (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Celery
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Seed 7.0 10.0 -0.83 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
GAMMA-TERPINEOL 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 3000.0 5000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TERPINEOL 0 Seed 57.0 125.0 not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
GAMMA-TERPINEOL 0 Seed Essent. Oil not available 5000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
GENTISIC-ACID 8 Leaf not available not available not available Griffiths, L. A. 1959. On the Distribution of Gentisic Acid in Green Plants. J. Exp. Biol. 10: 437.
GERANIOL-ACETATE 0 Seed Essent. Oil not available 400.0 -1.05 Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL-ACETATE 0 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL-BUTYRATE 0 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-ACETATE 5 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
GERANYL-BUTYRATE 3 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
GLUCOSE 7 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE 7 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSIDASE 0 Plant not available not available not available Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
GLUTAMIC-ACID 8 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMIC-ACID 8 Pt 860.0 18285.0 not available USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
GLUTAMIC-ACID(FREE) 0 Seed not available not available not available Wealth of India.
GLUTAMINE 5 Root 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.
GLYCINE 12 Pt 210.0 4290.0 not available USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
GLYCOLIC-ACID 4 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GRAVEOBIOSIDE-A 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Prolactinogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Proliferant 2 Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant 4 Duke, 1992 *
Propecic 5 Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Sparer 1 Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990.
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor 6 Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthetase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor 4 Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Protisticide 3 Martindale's 29th
Psychoactive 2 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.
PTK-Inhibitor 3 Duke, 1992 *
Pulmonotoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Pyrogenic 1 Conradson, T. B. G., Dixon, C. M. S., Clarke, B., Barnes, P. J. 1987. Cardiovascular Effects of Infused Adenosine in Man: Potentiation by Dipyridamole. Acta Physiol Scand, 129(3): 387-391.
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer 3 Uda, Y., Price, K. R., Williamson, G., Rhodes, M. J. C. 1997. Induction of the Anticarcinogenic Marker Enzyme, Quinone Reductase, in Murine Hepatoma Cells In Vitro by Flavonoids. Cancer Lett., 120 (2): 213-216.
Radioprotective 2 Duke, 1992 *
Refrigerant 1 Martindale's 28th
Renoirritant 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Renotoxic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Respiraparalytic 1 Duke, 1992 *