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Plant Cephalotaxus spp (Cephalotaxaceae)

Common Names
Generic Plum Yew
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
11-HYDROXYCEPHALOTAXINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ACETYLCEPHALOTAXINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CEPHALOMANNINE 3 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CEPHALOTAXINE 1 Plant not available not available 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 *
DESMETHYLCEPHALOTAXINONE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DRUPACINEHARRINGTONINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HOMOERYTHRINA-ALKALOIDS 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HOMOHARRINGTONINE 12 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOHARRINGTONINE 2 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Anticancer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinomic 1 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 1 J. Ethnopharmacology, 32: 117.
Antisarcomic 1 J. Ethnopharmacology, 32: 117.
Antitumor 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antitumor (Breast) 1 J. Ethnopharmacology, 32: 117.
Antitumor (Colon) 1 J. Ethnopharmacology, 32: 117.
Antitumor (Lung) 1 J. Ethnopharmacology, 32: 117.
Cytotoxic 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