Plant Zea mays (Poaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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Corn

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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
ADENINE	11	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ADENOSINE	28	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ADENOSINE	28	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AFLATOXIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AFLATOXIN B-1	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALANINE	3	Seed	2950.0	12272.0	0.45	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ALDOBIOURONIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALKALOIDS	0	Silk Stigma Style	not available	500.0	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ALLANTOIN	12	Embryo	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALLANTOIN	12	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
ALPHA-AMYLASE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-AMYRIN	10	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CAROTENE	7	Seed	0.5	2.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-COPAENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-GLUCOSIDASE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID	15	Seed	160.0	666.0	-0.32	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ALPHA-MUUROLENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-MUUROLENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Husk Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-SITOSTEROL	0	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
Cancer-Preventive	57	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Cancer-Preventive?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Candidicide	17	Martindale's 28th
Candidistat	2	Duke, 1992 *
Capillarigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Capillariprotective	2	Merck 11th Edition
Carcinogenic	12	Duke, 1992 *
Carcinogenic?	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Cardiac	1	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Cardiodepressant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiomyopathogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Cardioprotective	15	Duke, 1992 *
Cardioprotective?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Cardiotonic	4	Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Cardiotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Carminative	6	Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Caspase-8-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Catabolic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cataractagenic	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Cerebrotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *