1. Fraxinellone significantly reduced weight loss and diarrhea in mice and alleviated the macroscopic and microscopic signs of the disease. 2. Fraxinellone exhibited a variety of insecticidal activities including feeding-deterrent activity, inhibition of growth, and larvicidal activity. 3. Fraxinellone has effect in the midgut metabolism of Mythimna separata (M. separata), via protease (especially the weak alkaline trypsin-like enzyme), carboxylesterase and glutathione S-transferase.
Dictamine (Dectamine) shows anticholinesterase, anti-inflammatory, mutagenic, and has antimicrobial activity against bacteria and fungi. It has the ability to exert cytotoxicity in human cervix, colon, and oral carcinoma cells.
Preskimmianine is the biogenetic precursor of skimmianine.It can significantly inhibit nitric oxide (NO) production in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated BV2 cells.
Dasycarpol(9beta-Hydroxyfraxinellone) shows significant neuroprotective activity against glutamate-induced neurotoxicity in primary cultures of rat cortical cells at a concentration of 0.1 microM. Dasycarpol also shows moderate inhibitory activity on lung
Rutaevin shows the inhibitory activity on nitric oxide (NO) production in lipopolysaccharide-activated RAW264.7 macrophages, it may be as a valuable anti-inflammatory agent.