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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Macroptylium atropurpureum

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
GENISTEIN 81 Leaf Diffusate *
HYDROXYGENISTEIN 0 Leaf Diffusate *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Pesticide 1 *
Phytoalexin 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Pituitary-sensitizer 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
PTK-Inhibitor 1 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer 1 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 1 *
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 1 *
Topoisomerase-II-Poison 1 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 167.1999.
Trypanosomastat 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor 1 *
Uterotrophic 1 *
VEGF-Inhibitor 1 *