Jaconine, jacoline,jacobine, and jacozine, the hepatotoxic alkaloids, are potentially carcinogenic, mutagenic, and teratogenic and may pose health hazards to the human consumer.
1-Decarboxy-3-oxo-ceanothic acid shows in vitro cytotoxic activity in a human ovarian adenocarcinoma cell line, the cytotoxic effect is mediated, at least in part, by the induction of apoptosis. It shows cytotoxic against OVCAR-3 and HeLa cancer cell line
Prenatal exposure to Integerrimine N-oxide induces maternal toxicity, impairment of maternal care and delayed in physical and behavioral development of the offspring. Doses of Integerrimine N-oxide here employed did not produce marked immunotoxic effects.
Jacobine induces significant dose-dependent DNA-DNA interstrand cross-linking over the entire range of doses. It was catalyzed by guinea pig hepatic glutathione-S-transferase enzymes in in vitro experiments.