Plant Cucurbita pepo (Cucurbitaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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Pumpkin

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Food

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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
CHONDRILLASTEROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Seed	not available	17.0	1.79	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
CLEROSTEROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Seed	not available	143.0	6.00	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
CODECARBOXYLASE	0	Plant	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.
CODISTEROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Seed	14.0	25.0	0.92	Duke, 1992 *
CRYPTOXANTHIN	2	Flower	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.
CRYPTOXANTHIN	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBIC-ACID	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBIC-ACID	2	Seed	not available	1.2	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBIC-ACID-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Seed	not available	7.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBIC-ACID-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE-METHYL-ESTER	0	Seed	not available	1.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBIC-ACID-GLUCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
CUCURBIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
CUCURBIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBITA-RIBOSOMAL-INACTIVATING-PROTEIN(MW-30000)	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBITACIN-D	4	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBITACIN-I	6	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUCURBITAXANTHIN	0	Fruit	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.

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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
ICAM-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	9	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant	9	Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Immunosuppressant	1	Martindale's 29th
iNOS-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	10	Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Insectiphile	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insulinogenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Insulinotonic	1	J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Interferon-Synergist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant	3	Merck 11th Edition
JNK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Juvabional	1	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Keratolytic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Larvistat	1	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.