Plant Prosopis juliflora (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Mesquite

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
4-O-METHYL-D-GLUCURONIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
5-HYDROXYTRYPTAMINE	15	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN	101	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN-6,8-DIGLUCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Fruit	not available	48000.0	-0.22	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Leaf	not available	85000.0	-0.60	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Seed	35000.0	300000.0	7.58	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Leaf	not available	20800.0	0.16	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Fruit	not available	783000.0	0.00	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Leaf	not available	696000.0	0.67	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Seed	not available	218000.0	-1.21	Duke, 1992 *
CELLULOSE	1	Fruit	not available	272400.0	2.22	Duke, 1992 *
D-GALACTOSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Fruit	not available	30000.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Leaf	not available	29000.0	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	53000.0	78000.0	-0.99	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Fruit	not available	277000.0	1.28	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Leaf	not available	216000.0	0.67	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Seed	not available	28000.0	-0.84	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Fruit	not available	302500.0	2.32	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
Progestational	1	Duke, 1992 *
Proliferant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Ibewuike, J. C., Ogungbamila, F. O., Ogundaini, A. O., Okeke, I. N., Bohlin, L. 1997. Antiinflammatory and Antibacterial Activities of C-methylflavonol from Piliostigma thonningii. Phytotherapy Research, 11(4): 281-284.
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor	2	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.
Psychotropic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
PTK-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer	2	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	1	Duke, 1992 *
Secretogogue	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sedative	1	Duke, 1992 *
Spasmogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sunscreen	1	Duke, 1992 *
Teratologic	1	Duke, 1992 *
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor	2	Azuma, Y., Onishi, Y., Sato, Y., Kizaki, H. 1995. Effects of Protein Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors With Different Modes of Action on Topoisomerase Activity and Death of IL-2-Dependent CTLL-2-Cells. J Biochemistry, 118: 312-318.
Tranquilizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Tumorigenic	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.