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Plant Cephalotaxus harringtonii (Cephalotaxaceae)

Common Names
Japanese Plum Yew
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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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
11-HYDROXYCEPHALOTAXINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
3-EPISCHELHAMMERICINE 0 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CEPHALOTAXINE 1 Tissue Culture 0.8 28.5 not available Duke, 1992 *
CEPHALOTAXINONE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DEOXYHARRINGTONINE 2 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DESMETHYLCEPHALOTAXINE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DRUPACINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HARRINGTONINE 8 Fruit not available 500.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
HARRINGTONINE 8 Tissue Culture 0.0 0.2 not available Duke, 1992 *
HOMO-ERYTHRINA-ALKALOID 0 Tissue Culture 0.2 6.5 not available Duke, 1992 *
HOMODEOXYHARRINGTONINE 0 Tissue Culture not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HOMOHARRINGTONINE 12 Tissue Culture 0.0 1.2 not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOHARRINGTONINE 2 Tissue Culture 0.2 1.5 not available Duke, 1992 *
KAYAFLAVONE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SCHELHAMMERA-ALKALOID 0 Stem not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SCHELHAMMERA-ALKALOID-B-METHYL-ETHER 0 Stem not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Anticancer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinomic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antileukemic 5 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antimalarial 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Antimelanomic 2 J. Ethnopharmacology, 32: 117.
Antisarcomic 2 J. Ethnopharmacology, 32: 117.
Antitumor 2 Martindale's 29th
Antitumor (Breast) 2 J. Ethnopharmacology, 32: 117.
Antitumor (Colon) 2 J. Ethnopharmacology, 32: 117.
Antitumor (Lung) 2 J. Ethnopharmacology, 32: 117.
DNA-Synthesis-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypotensive 1 Martindale's 29th
MDR-Inhibitor 1 Qian, Q. J., Han, J. L., Yan, W. W., Yang, C. Z., Han, D. S., Shi, H., Hao, Y. 1996. A Comparative Study on the Mechanism of Homoharringtonine (HHI) and Melphalan (MEL) Resistance in K562/H20 and K562/MEL Cell Lines. Zhonghua Xueyexue Zazhi,17(7):354-356.
Tachycardic 1 Martindale's 29th