Desaspidin is an
anthelmintic
Anthelmintics or antihelminthics are a group of antiparasitic drugs that expel parasitic worms (helminths) and other internal parasites from the body by either stunning or killing them and without causing significant damage to the host. They may ...
. Desapidin may occur in natural form within some plants such as
Coastal woodfern, ''
Dryopteris arguta
''Dryopteris arguta'', with the common name coastal woodfern, is a species of wood fern. It is native to the west coast and western interior mountain ranges of North America, from British Columbia, throughout California, and into Arizona.
It gr ...
''. Since the 1950s the inhibition effects of desapidins upon
phosphorylation in
chloroplasts has been noted and studied.
References
Anthelmintics
Cyclohexadienes
Piceol ethers
Resorcinols
Propyl compounds
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