Crotonoside is one compound of an antitumor and immunity-regulating pharmaceutical composition of traditional Chinese medicine.

Cytarabine is a pyrimidine nucleoside in which cytosine is attached to D-arabinofuranose via a beta-N1-glycosidic bond. Used mainly in the treatment of leukaemia, especially acute non-lymphoblastic leukaemia, cytarabine is an antimetabolite antineoplastic agent that inhibits the synthesis of DNA. It also has antiviral and immunosuppressant properties. It has a role as an antiviral agent, an antimetabolite, an antineoplastic agent and an immunosuppressive agent.

Arglabin has antiatherogenic effects, it may represent a new promising compound to treat inflammation and type 2 diabetes mellitus development, it can attenuate inflammation, protect pancreatic β-cells from apoptosis, and prevent Type 2 diabetes mellitus development in ApoE2Ki mice on a chronic high-fat diet. Arglabin shows promising antitumor activity against different tumor cell lines, Arglabin-DMA inhibits cell proliferation of a variety of tumor types with IC(90)s in the range of 0.85 to 5.0 microg/ml. Arglabin is an organic heterotetracyclic compound and guaianolide sesquiterpene lactone that is acrylic acid which is substituted at position 2 by a 4-hydroxy-3,8-dimethyl-1,3a,4,5,6,7-hexahydroazulen-5-yl group in which the double bond in the 7-membered ring has been epoxidised and in which the hydroxy group and the carboxy group have undergone formal condensation to give the corresponding gamma-lactone. It is found in Artemisia glabella.

2'-deoxycytidine is a pyrimidine 2'-deoxyribonucleoside having cytosine as the nucleobase. It has a role as a mouse metabolite, a Saccharomyces cerevisiae metabolite, an Escherichia coli metabolite and a human metabolite. It is functionally related to a cytosine.

Atranorin shows significant antinociceptive and antiinflammatory activities, it has a relevant redox-active action, acting as a pro-oxidant or antioxidant agent depending on the radical, also, it will exert cytoprotective effects on cells under oxidative stress induced by H(2)O(2). Atranorin has suppression of viability and proliferation in tumour cell lines.

Securinine, a GABAA receptor antagonist, enhances macrophage clearance of phase II C. burnetii: comparison with TLR agonists. It is alsoia promising new monocytic differentiation inducing agent for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). Securinine shows antifungal activity against some plant pathogenic fungi.