Plant Prunus cerasus (Rosaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Sour Cherry

How this plant is used

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
SUGARS	0	Fruit	68000.0	104400.0	-0.45	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Bark	50000.0	70000.0	-0.62	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
TARTARIC-ACID	6	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TAXIFOLIN	17	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TAXIFOLIN-3-HETEROSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TECTOCHRYSIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN	31	Fruit	0.0	5.0	-0.04	Duke, 1992 *
THREONINE	4	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE	8	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
URSOLIC-ACID	89	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALINE	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Fruit	826000.0	874000.0	0.45	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Fruit	1.0	7.0	-0.70	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
MAPK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Mast-Cell-Stabilizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
MDR-Inhibitor	1	Castro, A. F., Altenberg, G. A. 1997. Inhibition of Drug Transport by Genistein in Multidrug-Resistant Cell Expressing P-Glycoprotein. Biochem Pharmacol, 53(1): 89-93.
Memory-Enhancer	1	Science News, 138: 189, 1990.
Metal-Chelator	3	McEvily, A.J., Iyengar, R., and Gross, A.T. Inhibition of Polyphenol Oxidase by Phenolic Compounds. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.25.
Metal-Chelator (Copper)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Metalloproteinase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Metastatic	1	Science News, 146: 421.
MMP-9-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Monoamine-Precursor	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Motor-Depressant	2	Buchbauer et al, e.g.Buchbauer et al,1993.Therapeutic properties of essential oils and fragrances. Chap.12 in Teranishi,R, Buttery,R.G and Sugisawa,H. Eds. Bioactive Volatile Compounds from Plants. ACS Symposium Series 525. Amer. Chem. Soc., Washington DC
Mucogenic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Mucolytic	2	Martindale's 29th
Musculotropic	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Mutagenic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Mycobactericide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Myoprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant	6	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
NADH-Oxidase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
NADH-Ubiquinone-Oxidoreductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *