11,13-Dihydrolactucin is a useful organic compound for research related to life sciences.

Soyasapogenol A shows estrogenic and hepatoprotective activities, it directly prevents apoptosis of hepatocytes, and secondly, inhibits the elevation of plasma TNF-α±, which consequently resulted in the prevention of liver damage in the concanavalin A-induced hepatitis model.

Somatostatin-28 (1-12) is a somatostatin fragment which is monitored in brain tissue to track processing of somatostatin.