Epipinoresinol is an important component of the medicinal herb Eucommia ulmoides, which has a substantial reputation as an effective antihypertensive remedy. Epipinoresinol (EPR) belongs to the group of furofuran-type lignans consisting of two phenylpropane units. (+)-epipinoresinol exhibited antiplatelet aggregation activity. It also exhibited inhibitory effects on nitric oxide production. Epipinoresinol possess antiproliferative activity.

Bisbenzimide ethoxide is a fluorescent nucleic acid stain useful for DNA labeling in fluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry. It appears to bind to AT-rich regions containing at least four such basepairs. Bisbenzimide ethoxide seems to bind relatively poorly to nucleotide sequences containing the alternating step TpA. Bisbenzimide ethoxide induced apoptosis in the HL-60 cells in a time- and dose-dependent manner. Endogenous nuclear topoisomerase I activity in HL-60 cells was inhibited by treatment with Bisbenzimide ethoxide.

C-curarine-III chloride (Methvin) is a short-acting selective sympathetic ganglioblocker with weak antagonist activity on the nicotinic receptor at the neuromuscular junction; hypotensive. In test animals the drug produces a well-marked and short-term (easily controllable) hypotensive effect, without causing any histamine-like and direct vasodilation action. When used in relatively high doses methvin blocks the neuro-muscular conduction, potentiates the action of major muscle relaxants. A study of methvin in clinical conditions confirmed its high gangliolytic activity previously revealed in experiments.

Quebrachitol (QCT), a bioactive plant constituent, is a naturally occurring optically active cyclitols. QCT could serve as the starting material of inositol or its derivatives to participate in several important pathways and may act as a potential anticancer or antidiabetic drug lead to arrest or reverse these diseases. According to the literature reported before, QCT exerted its biological functions, by involving IP3 receptor, b-glucosidase, PAFR, COX2, nitric oxide synthase, and K(+)ATP channels. Quebrachitol reduces the gastric damage induced by ethanol and indomethacin. The potential of quebrachitol as a sugar substitute for diabetics has been investigated. Even though the early study reported that this methylcyclitol seems neither to prevent hypoglycemia nor to raise blood sugar content, another work showed that quebrachitol has hypoglycemic effects in hyperglycemic rats. Unfortunately, all three persons who took quebrachitol by mouth had fairly severe diarrhea.

Natural perseitol is to be named D-perseitol because it was synthesized through the reduction of D-manno-D-gala-heptose. D-perseitol would surely result also from the reduction of L-gala-D-manno-heptose. It was demonstrated that perseitol with a configuration of the hydroxyl group at the 4th carbon atom corresponding to that of mannoheptulose showed a significant inhibition of glucokinase. A complex of perseitol (D-glycero-D-galacto-heptitol) and K+ ions, isolated from the leaves of Scurrula fusca (Loranthaceae), which has been traditionally used for the treatment of cancer in Sulawesi Island (Indonesia), exhibits a potent inhibitory effect on [3H]-leucine incorporation for protein synthesis in Ehrlich ascites tumor cells in mice. Transaldolase-deficient patients had subtle elevations of perseitol in urine. Thus, heptitol perseitol might serves as novel urinary biomarkers for identification of transaldolase deficiency.

Cholanic acid is the archetypal C24 bile acid skeleton from which all other C24 bile acids can be derived. Of the two common isomers: 5alpha and 5Beta, the last isomer is the most biologically relevant. 5-Beta Cholanic Acid has been studied as a modulator of the gamma-secretase complex as it pertains to Alzheimer's disease; it has also been identified as an inhibitor of the Ephrin type-A receptor 2 that is involved in cancer cell signaling and angiogenesis.

Dihydroxyprogesterone acetophenide (DHPA; brand name Topasel), also known as algestone acetophenide, is a steroidal progestin that is used as a contraceptive in combination with estradiol enanthate. Unlike many other 17α-hydroxyprogesterone derivatives, dihydroxyprogesterone acetophenide was reported to possess no glucocorticoid activity.

Indoleacetic acid is the most abundant and basic plant hormone of auxin class. In plants, it plays a key role in both roots and shoots development. In mammals, indoleacetic acid is often produced by the action of gut bacteria. Elevated levels of indoleacetic acid have been found in the urine of patients with phenylketonuria. Indoleacetic acid was evaluated as a photosensitizer for acne treatment.

The radioligand N-(2,5-dimethoxybenzyl)-N-(5-fluoro- 2-phenoxyphenyl) acetamide labeled with carbon-11 (abbreviated as [11C]DAA1106) has emerged as a reliable radiotracer for examining neuroinflammation with positron emission tomography (PET) scanning in vivo. DAA-1106 is a selective agonist for the peripheral benzodiazepine receptor (also known as Translocator protein or TSPO). DAA-1106 exerts potent anxiolytic-like properties, in laboratory animals.

Cobalt is an essential trace mineral for ruminant animals such as dairy and beef cattle, sheep and goats. Most forages and feedstuffs fed to dairy and beef animals do not contain adequate quantities of cobalt to support the rumen and animal requirements. Cobalt propionate may be a slightly better source of cobalt compared to cobalt carbonate.