Alpinumisoflavone acetate (4'-O-Acetylalpinumisoflavone) is a new alpinumisoflavone derivative. Alpinumisoflavone strongly inhibits germ tube growth at 0.63 ug/disc.

Alpinumisoflavone has atheroprotective effects, may result from their ability to upregulate mechanisms promoting HDL-cholesterol and bile acid formation, it is endowed with estrogenic properties accounting, at least in part, for E. lysistemon effects. Alp