Compound Monograph

Eleutheroside E

Phenolics Lignans Natural (plant-derived)

Eleutheroside E is a furofuran lignan diglucoside — the syringaresinol di-O-glucoside earlier named acanthoside D — and, with eleutheroside B, one of the two marker compounds used to standardise eleuthero (Siberian ginseng). Its own isolate literature is entirely preclinical: anti-inflammatory NF-κB suppression, ischaemic cardio- and cerebroprotection, and metabolic effects. Eleuthero's human anti-fatigue reputation belongs to the whole standardised extract, not this single glycoside.

Sources · 3

Where Does It Come From?

Eleutheroside E is a naturally occurring furofuran lignan diglucoside (syringaresinol di-o-glucoside), found in Eleuthero Root and 2 other sources. It is well tolerated orally (low toxicity).

Also found in
Other Eleutherococcus / Acanthopanax species Monograph coming soon
Various lignan-bearing plants Monograph coming soon

Concentration

Content by Source

Concentrations not reported. No percent-dry-weight or mg/g figures have been published for this compound in its source plants.

Eleutheroside E at a Glance

Eleutheroside E is a furofuran lignan diglucoside — the molecule that results when the aglycone syringaresinol carries a glucose on each of its two phenolic oxygens. It is chemically identical to the compound earlier named acanthoside D. With eleutheroside B (syringin), it is one of the two marker compounds used to standardise eleuthero (Siberian ginseng, Eleutherococcus senticosus), the classic adaptogen.

That marker status is the source of most confusion about it. Eleuthero’s human reputation — anti-fatigue, endurance, stress resistance — rests on the whole standardised root extract, a mixture of eleutherosides, coumarins (isofraxidin), caffeoylquinic acids, phytosterols and immune-active polysaccharides 11,12Reference 11Panossian A · 2009Evidence-based efficacy of adaptogens in fatigue, and molecular mechanisms related to their stress-protective activityView study →Reference 12Patyra A et al. · 2025ReviewEleutherococcus root: a comprehensive review of its phytochemistry and pharmacological potential in the context of its adaptogenic effectView study →. Eleutheroside E the isolate has never been shown to reproduce that adaptogen effect on its own, and there are no human trials of the pure compound for any indication.

What the isolate does have is a coherent, entirely preclinical signature. It suppresses NF-κB-driven inflammation in arthritis and immune-cell models 1,5,6Reference 1He C et al. · 2014AnimalEleutheroside E ameliorates arthritis severity in collagen-induced arthritis mice model by suppressing inflammatory cytokine releaseView study →Reference 5Wang S · 2020Eleutheroside E decreases oxidative stress and NF-κB activation and reprograms the metabolic response against hypoxia-reoxygenation injury in H9c2 cellsView study →Reference 6Jia N et al. · 2023Eleutheroside E from pre-treatment of Acanthopanax senticosus ameliorates high-altitude-induced heart injury by regulating NLRP3 inflammasome-mediated pyroptosis via the NLRP3/caspase-1 pathwayView study →, it protects heart and brain tissue from ischaemic / hypoxic injury 5,6,7Reference 5Wang S · 2020Eleutheroside E decreases oxidative stress and NF-κB activation and reprograms the metabolic response against hypoxia-reoxygenation injury in H9c2 cellsView study →Reference 6Jia N et al. · 2023Eleutheroside E from pre-treatment of Acanthopanax senticosus ameliorates high-altitude-induced heart injury by regulating NLRP3 inflammasome-mediated pyroptosis via the NLRP3/caspase-1 pathwayView study →Reference 7Liu Z et al. · 2022AnimalEleutheroside E alleviates cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury in a 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 2C (Htr2c)-dependent manner in ratsView study →, and it improves insulin sensitivity in diabetic mice 4Reference 4Ahn J et al. · 2013AnimalEleutheroside E, an active component of Eleutherococcus senticosus, ameliorates insulin resistance in type 2 diabetic db/db miceView study →, with additional isolate signals in cognition, sleep and bone 3,8,9Reference 3Huang LZ et al. · 2011AnimalThe effect of eleutheroside E on behavioral alterations in murine sleep deprivation stress modelView study →Reference 8Lu X · 2019Eleutheroside E attenuates isoflurane-induced cognitive dysfunction by regulating the α7-nAChR-NMDAR pathwayView study →Reference 9Zhou T et al. · 2023Decoding the mechanism of eleutheroside E in treating osteoporosis via network pharmacological analysis and molecular docking of osteoclast-related genes and gut microbiotaView study →. Read those as mechanistic promise, not established human benefit.

Eleutheroside E & Syringaresinol

The single most useful thing to understand about this molecule is its relationship to syringaresinol, its aglycone. Eleutheroside E is (−)-syringaresinol-4,4′-O-β-D-diglucoside — the rigid furofuran (bis-epoxylignan) core of syringaresinol, built from two syringyl (4-hydroxy-3,5-dimethoxyphenyl) units, carrying a glucose on each phenolic oxygen. Remove those two sugars and you are left with the aglycone; add them back and you have the diglucoside.

Two naming points are worth fixing in place, because the older literature is scattered across synonyms:

  • Acanthoside D = eleutheroside E. The compound isolated and named acanthoside D from Acanthopanax (an older genus name for Eleutherococcus) was later shown to be the same (−)-syringaresinol diglucoside now catalogued as eleutheroside E. Much of the pharmacology appears under the synonym Acanthopanax senticosus; keep those on the same line.
  • Diglucoside, not aglycone. Findings on eleutheroside E (the glycoside) and on syringaresinol (the aglycone) are not interchangeable. They differ in polarity, in oral absorption, and in the exact assays run. Where a result is the glycoside’s, it stays the glycoside’s — only eleutheroside-E-specific studies are reported here and cross-refers to the aglycone page for the syringaresinol isolate work.

Structurally it belongs to the same furofuran (bis-epoxylignan) family as sesamin, pinoresinol and lariciresinol — the group whose two aryl rings are locked through a fused bicyclic diether — but as a glycoside rather than a free lignan, which is what governs how it behaves in the gut (see Pharmacokinetics). A closely related eleuthero/lignan glycoside, liriodendrin, is a symmetrical syringaresinol diglucoside variant that co-occurs with it in some plants; it is a distinct molecule and does not yet have its own page here.

The Eleuthero Adaptogen Marker

In eleuthero, the two pharmacopoeial markers are eleutheroside B (syringin, a phenylpropanoid glycoside) and eleutheroside E (this syringaresinol diglucoside). European Pharmacopoeia dried root is standardised to a minimum 0.08% for the sum of eleutheroside B + E, and Russian- and Korean-grown root generally runs several-fold higher in E than Chinese material 12Reference 12Patyra A et al. · 2025ReviewEleutherococcus root: a comprehensive review of its phytochemistry and pharmacological potential in the context of its adaptogenic effectView study →. The B+E pair is thus a quality-control fingerprint for the herb — how you verify you have genuine eleuthero root and not a substitute species.

Two cautions follow, and they are the point of this section:

  • Marker ≠ active agent. Standardising an extract to eleutheroside E does not make eleutheroside E the thing responsible for eleuthero’s effect. The best-evidenced human outcomes for eleuthero — improved endurance and mental performance in mild fatigue and weakness — are documented for the whole extract 11Reference 11Panossian A · 2009Evidence-based efficacy of adaptogens in fatigue, and molecular mechanisms related to their stress-protective activityView study →, and a comprehensive 2025 review concludes the adaptogenic action is a combination of anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory, antioxidant and neuroprotective activity from the unfractionated raw material, not any single eleutheroside 12Reference 12Patyra A et al. · 2025ReviewEleutherococcus root: a comprehensive review of its phytochemistry and pharmacological potential in the context of its adaptogenic effectView study →. The marker is how you confirm the herb; it is not a claim that the marker carries the pharmacology.
  • The anti-fatigue reputation is the extract’s, not the isolate’s. Where eleutheroside E has been singled out for anti-fatigue, the evidence is bioactivity-guided fractionation of the plant — the eleutheroside-containing fraction extended weight-loaded swimming time in mice, and the authors inferred eleutheroside E as the responsible constituent 2Reference 2Huang LZ et al. · 2011Bioactivity-guided fractionation for anti-fatigue property of Acanthopanax senticosusView study →. That is a fraction-level attribution in rodents, not a trial of the purified molecule in people. Even the 2025 review flags the lack of robust clinical evidence for eleuthero in asthenia 12Reference 12Patyra A et al. · 2025ReviewEleutherococcus root: a comprehensive review of its phytochemistry and pharmacological potential in the context of its adaptogenic effectView study →.

What It's Used For

The isolate literature is preclinical throughout — cell and animal work, no human trials of the pure compound. It clusters into an anti-inflammatory core, an ischaemia-protection thread that recurs across heart and brain, and scattered metabolic, neurological and skeletal signals.

Anti-inflammatory NF-κB suppression is the best-developed thread, and it is the isolate:purified eleutheroside E reduced arthritis severity and TNF-α/IL-6 release in collagen-induced arthritis mice 1Reference 1He C et al. · 2014AnimalEleutheroside E ameliorates arthritis severity in collagen-induced arthritis mice model by suppressing inflammatory cytokine releaseView study →, and the same NF-κB axis recurs in cardiac and pulmonary hypoxia models 5,6Reference 5Wang S · 2020Eleutheroside E decreases oxidative stress and NF-κB activation and reprograms the metabolic response against hypoxia-reoxygenation injury in H9c2 cellsView study →Reference 6Jia N et al. · 2023Eleutheroside E from pre-treatment of Acanthopanax senticosus ameliorates high-altitude-induced heart injury by regulating NLRP3 inflammasome-mediated pyroptosis via the NLRP3/caspase-1 pathwayView study →.
A consistent ischaemia / hypoxia protection signal across organs:it limited hypoxia-reoxygenation injury in cardiomyocytes (NF-κB, metabolic reprogramming) 5Reference 5Wang S · 2020Eleutheroside E decreases oxidative stress and NF-κB activation and reprograms the metabolic response against hypoxia-reoxygenation injury in H9c2 cellsView study →, high-altitude heart injury via NLRP3/caspase-1 pyroptosis 6Reference 6Jia N et al. · 2023Eleutheroside E from pre-treatment of Acanthopanax senticosus ameliorates high-altitude-induced heart injury by regulating NLRP3 inflammasome-mediated pyroptosis via the NLRP3/caspase-1 pathwayView study →, and cerebral ischaemia-reperfusion injury through a serotonin-receptor (Htr2c) / caspase mechanism 7Reference 7Liu Z et al. · 2022AnimalEleutheroside E alleviates cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury in a 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 2C (Htr2c)-dependent manner in ratsView study → — all in cells or rodents.
Metabolic, cognitive, sleep and bone signals exist but are single-study:improved insulin sensitivity in db/db mice 4Reference 4Ahn J et al. · 2013AnimalEleutheroside E, an active component of Eleutherococcus senticosus, ameliorates insulin resistance in type 2 diabetic db/db miceView study →, reversed anaesthesia-induced cognitive deficits in aged rats 8Reference 8Lu X · 2019Eleutheroside E attenuates isoflurane-induced cognitive dysfunction by regulating the α7-nAChR-NMDAR pathwayView study →, normalised sleep-deprivation behaviour in mice 3Reference 3Huang LZ et al. · 2011AnimalThe effect of eleutheroside E on behavioral alterations in murine sleep deprivation stress modelView study →, and reduced ovariectomy bone loss via gut microbiota 9Reference 9Zhou T et al. · 2023Decoding the mechanism of eleutheroside E in treating osteoporosis via network pharmacological analysis and molecular docking of osteoclast-related genes and gut microbiotaView study →.
The honest headline:there are no human trials of eleutheroside E; eleuthero’s human adaptogen/anti-fatigue data test the whole standardised extract, not this molecule 2,11,12Reference 2Huang LZ et al. · 2011Bioactivity-guided fractionation for anti-fatigue property of Acanthopanax senticosusView study →Reference 11Panossian A · 2009Evidence-based efficacy of adaptogens in fatigue, and molecular mechanisms related to their stress-protective activityView study →Reference 12Patyra A et al. · 2025ReviewEleutherococcus root: a comprehensive review of its phytochemistry and pharmacological potential in the context of its adaptogenic effectView study →; and the glycoside is poorly oral-bioavailable, which undercuts direct read-across from in-vitro potency.
Evidence by IndicationStrength of support · Beta

Support is an experimental score — weighted by study type (human > animal > in vitro) and volume. A beta, not a validated metric. Every row here is isolate preclinical (no human data), so scores stay low by design. Each application links to its write-up.

Mechanisms

Target / pathwayEffectRelevant to
NF-κB (IκBα phosphorylation, p65 translocation)suppressed
anti-inflammatorycardioprotection
TNF-α, IL-6 (and other cytokines)downregulated
arthritissystemic inflammation
NLRP3 inflammasome / caspase-1 (pyroptosis)inhibited
high-altitude heart injury
Mitochondrial oxidative stress + metabolite reprogrammingreduced / re-modulated
cardiomyocyte hypoxia-reoxygenation
5-HT receptor 2C (Htr2c) → caspase-3/6/7Htr2c ↑, caspases ↓ → less apoptosis
cerebral ischaemia-reperfusion
Insulin signalling / glucose uptake (myotubes, adipocytes); hepatic glycolysis vs gluconeogenesisinsulin sensitivity ↑; HOMA-IR ↓
insulin resistance (db/db)
α7-nAChR–NMDAR / acetylcholinerestored
anaesthesia-induced cognitive dysfunction
Gut microbiota (Lactobacillus ↑, Clostridiaceae ↓)remodelled
ovariectomy bone loss
CYP2C9, CYP2E1weak inhibition (high μM)
drug-interaction potential

The load-bearing observation is that the anti-inflammatory (NF-κB) and ischaemia-protection threads converge on inflammation and cell-survival signalling — a plausible rationale for why the diglucoside is an adaptogen marker, but one demonstrated only in cells and rodents, and never for the isolate in people.

Pharmacokinetics

Human pharmacokinetics of eleutheroside E are uncharacterised, and the compound’s structure predicts poor oral bioavailability — the key caveat behind every in-vitro potency claim. As a furofuran lignan diglucoside it is large and polar; like other lignan glycosides it is expected to be deglycosylated by gut microflora before the lipophilic aglycone (syringaresinol) can be absorbed, and syringaresinol itself is not efficiently converted to the mammalian lignans enterolactone/enterodiol and shows P-glycoprotein-limited intestinal absorption. Rodent studies dose eleutheroside E parenterally (e.g. 10–50 mg/kg intraperitoneally) 3,8Reference 3Huang LZ et al. · 2011AnimalThe effect of eleutheroside E on behavioral alterations in murine sleep deprivation stress modelView study →Reference 8Lu X · 2019Eleutheroside E attenuates isoflurane-induced cognitive dysfunction by regulating the α7-nAChR-NMDAR pathwayView study → precisely where systemic exposure matters, sidestepping the oral-absorption problem. No human oral-bioavailability figure, half-life or active-metabolite profile has been established for the glycoside; whatever reaches the circulation after an oral dose is likely low and highly microbiome-dependent.

Clinical Trials

There are no clinical trials of isolated eleutheroside E for any indication. The human evidence often invoked alongside it belongs to whole eleuthero extract standardised to the eleutheroside B+E marker pair — a different, multi-component product — where it has been studied for fatigue, endurance and stress 11,12Reference 11Panossian A · 2009Evidence-based efficacy of adaptogens in fatigue, and molecular mechanisms related to their stress-protective activityView study →Reference 12Patyra A et al. · 2025ReviewEleutherococcus root: a comprehensive review of its phytochemistry and pharmacological potential in the context of its adaptogenic effectView study →. Every application above is cell or animal work.

CompletedPlannedTerminatedPreclinical
None(isolate); whole-eleuthero-extract adaptogen/fatigue trials are a separate entity——Anti-inflammatory, ischaemic cardio-/cerebroprotection, insulin resistance, cognition/sleep, bone

Last checked: July 2026.

Isolate vs. Plant Studies

This molecule shows a clean split. The mechanistic work is genuine isolate science — purified eleutheroside E in defined arthritis, cardiomyocyte, ischaemia, diabetic-mouse and cognition models 1,4,5,6,7,8Reference 1He C et al. · 2014AnimalEleutheroside E ameliorates arthritis severity in collagen-induced arthritis mice model by suppressing inflammatory cytokine releaseView study →Reference 4Ahn J et al. · 2013AnimalEleutheroside E, an active component of Eleutherococcus senticosus, ameliorates insulin resistance in type 2 diabetic db/db miceView study →Reference 5Wang S · 2020Eleutheroside E decreases oxidative stress and NF-κB activation and reprograms the metabolic response against hypoxia-reoxygenation injury in H9c2 cellsView study →Reference 6Jia N et al. · 2023Eleutheroside E from pre-treatment of Acanthopanax senticosus ameliorates high-altitude-induced heart injury by regulating NLRP3 inflammasome-mediated pyroptosis via the NLRP3/caspase-1 pathwayView study →Reference 7Liu Z et al. · 2022AnimalEleutheroside E alleviates cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury in a 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 2C (Htr2c)-dependent manner in ratsView study →Reference 8Lu X · 2019Eleutheroside E attenuates isoflurane-induced cognitive dysfunction by regulating the α7-nAChR-NMDAR pathwayView study → — which is a strength for understanding how the compound acts. But the human, real-world evidence is all plant/extract: eleuthero’s anti-fatigue, endurance and stress-resistance data use the standardised whole root extract, within which eleutheroside E appears only as a marker constituent at pharmacopoeial quantities (part of the ≥0.08% B+E fraction) 11,12Reference 11Panossian A · 2009Evidence-based efficacy of adaptogens in fatigue, and molecular mechanisms related to their stress-protective activityView study →Reference 12Patyra A et al. · 2025ReviewEleutherococcus root: a comprehensive review of its phytochemistry and pharmacological potential in the context of its adaptogenic effectView study →. Even the isolate’s most-cited anti-fatigue result is a fraction-level inference, not a purified-compound trial 2Reference 2Huang LZ et al. · 2011Bioactivity-guided fractionation for anti-fatigue property of Acanthopanax senticosusView study →. The gap between “the isolate does X to a cell or a mouse” and “eleuthero helps a person” is therefore wide and unbridged. Treat every isolate result as a hypothesis about the plant, not proof of it — and remember that the poor oral bioavailability of the glycoside makes read-across from injected rodent doses to an oral human dose especially uncertain.

Prevalence in Nature

Eleutheroside E is a plant lignan glycoside whose signature concentrated form is in eleuthero (Eleutherococcus senticosus / Acanthopanax senticosus) root, where it and eleutheroside B (syringin) are the pharmacopoeial marker pair. Its content is strongly provenance-dependent: Russian- and Korean-grown root generally carries several-fold more eleutheroside E than Chinese material, and the two markers together must reach ≥0.08% of dried root under the European Pharmacopoeia standard 12Reference 12Patyra A et al. · 2025ReviewEleutherococcus root: a comprehensive review of its phytochemistry and pharmacological potential in the context of its adaptogenic effectView study →. As the diglucoside of the widespread lignan syringaresinol, it (or close variants such as liriodendrin) also occurs across various lignan-bearing plants, but eleuthero root is its defining source.

Major Natural Sources

Source (Botanical)PartFormNotes
Eleuthero / Siberian ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus)Root / underground organsEleutheroside E (diglucoside)Pharmacopoeial marker with eleutheroside B; ≥0.08% B+E; higher in Russian/Korean root 12Reference 12Patyra A et al. · 2025ReviewEleutherococcus root: a comprehensive review of its phytochemistry and pharmacological potential in the context of its adaptogenic effectView study →
Other Eleutherococcus / Acanthopanax spp.Root / barkEleutheroside E / acanthoside DHistorical acanthoside D isolations; watch for substitute-species chemotypes
Various lignan-bearing plantsVariousSyringaresinol glycosidesBackground occurrence as the syringaresinol diglucoside / related liriodendrin

Quantified % dry-weight figures per source (beyond the combined B+E pharmacopoeial minimum) were not pinned — the E-specific concentration data live in the gaps tracker to chase on a later pass.

Discovery & Synthesis

Eleutheroside E entered the literature partly under a different name. The compound isolated from Acanthopanax and named acanthoside D was later identified as (−)-syringaresinol-4,4′-O-β-D-diglucoside — the same molecule catalogued as eleutheroside E once Eleutherococcus pharmacology consolidated around a numbered “eleutheroside” marker series. Because it is simply the diglucoside of syringaresinol, its biosynthesis follows the general lignan route — oxidative (peroxidase/laccase-type) coupling of sinapyl alcohol to the symmetrical furofuran core, followed by glucosylation at both phenolic oxygens. In practice, research-grade eleutheroside E is obtained by extraction and isolation from eleuthero root (and used as an analytical standard for herb standardisation) rather than by total synthesis.

Patents: not yet researched.

Toxicity & Safety

Eleutheroside E carries a low toxicity flag. It is a dietary lignan glycoside consumed at marker-level quantities within a herb (eleuthero) that has a long traditional-use record, and dedicated isolate testing has surfaced no cytotoxicity or genotoxicity signal for it or its aglycone. The one measured pharmacological caution is a weak drug-metabolism interaction, and the broader picture is defined by absence of dedicated human data rather than by any established harm.

Safety at a Glance
Low / no toxicityDrug interactions
  • Marker-level dietary exposure. Human intake is small and indirect, chiefly as one of two standardisation markers in eleuthero preparations (≥0.08% combined B+E) 12Reference 12Patyra A et al. · 2025ReviewEleutherococcus root: a comprehensive review of its phytochemistry and pharmacological potential in the context of its adaptogenic effectView study →.
  • No isolate cyto-/genotoxicity signal. The aglycone syringaresinol tested negative for cytotoxicity and DNA damage in liver and colon cells; no adverse isolate finding is reported for eleutheroside E itself.
  • Weak CYP2C9 / CYP2E1 inhibition. In rat liver microsomes, eleutherosides B and E weakly inhibited CYP2C9 and CYP2E1 (IC₅₀ in the high-μM range) with no effect on CYP2D6 or CYP3A4 — a theoretical interaction for co-administered CYP2C9/2E1 substrates 10Reference 10Guo S et al. · 2014AnimalEffects of eleutheroside B and eleutheroside E on activity of cytochrome P450 in rat liver microsomesView study →.
  • No human safety, PK or interaction data for the isolate. Absence of evidence is not evidence of safety; poor oral bioavailability further limits what the in-vitro data imply.
Full Safety & Interactions Detail

The dedicated interaction data are the informative part. In rat liver microsomes, eleutheroside E (with eleutheroside B) weakly inhibited CYP2C9 and CYP2E1 — IC₅₀ ≈ 262 μM (CYP2C9) and ≈ 188 μM (CYP2E1), a mixed-type inhibition of CYP2E1 (Ki ≈ 172 μM) — while leaving CYP2D6 and CYP3A4 unaffected 10Reference 10Guo S et al. · 2014AnimalEffects of eleutheroside B and eleutheroside E on activity of cytochrome P450 in rat liver microsomesView study →.

Those concentrations are high relative to plausible exposure from a standardised herbal dose, so the practical interaction risk is modest, but it flags CYP2C9/2E1 substrates as the theoretical concern rather than the CYP3A4/P-gp axis. Separately, whole-eleuthero-root extracts are known to contain digoxin-like immunoreactive substances that distort digoxin immunoassays — an assay interference, not a pharmacokinetic effect, and a property of the extract rather than of purified eleutheroside E, but worth flagging on any eleuthero-related page. Beyond this, the safety picture is defined by missing data: there are no human safety studies, no repeat-dose or reproductive-toxicity package, and no characterised half-life for the isolate. Pregnancy and lactation decisions belong to the eleuthero herb page and any supplement product — where intake is actually decided — not to this molecule page.

Dosage

There is no established human dose for isolated eleutheroside E, and nothing here is a recommendation — the figures are the preclinical research doses behind the sections above:

ApplicationModelExposure studied
Neuroprotection / cognitionAged rats50 mg/kg intraperitoneally 8Reference 8Lu X · 2019Eleutheroside E attenuates isoflurane-induced cognitive dysfunction by regulating the α7-nAChR-NMDAR pathwayView study →
Sleep-deprivation behaviourMice10 or 50 mg/kg, repeated 3Reference 3Huang LZ et al. · 2011AnimalThe effect of eleutheroside E on behavioral alterations in murine sleep deprivation stress modelView study →
Anti-inflammatory (arthritis)CIA mice / cellsin-vivo dosing + μM in vitro 1Reference 1He C et al. · 2014AnimalEleutheroside E ameliorates arthritis severity in collagen-induced arthritis mice model by suppressing inflammatory cytokine releaseView study →
Insulin resistancedb/db mice; C2C12 / 3T3-L1 cellsdietary/oral in mice; μM in cells 4Reference 4Ahn J et al. · 2013AnimalEleutheroside E, an active component of Eleutherococcus senticosus, ameliorates insulin resistance in type 2 diabetic db/db miceView study →
Ischaemia protectionH9c2 cells; ratsμM in vitro; dose-dependent in vivo 5,6Reference 5Wang S · 2020Eleutheroside E decreases oxidative stress and NF-κB activation and reprograms the metabolic response against hypoxia-reoxygenation injury in H9c2 cellsView study →Reference 6Jia N et al. · 2023Eleutheroside E from pre-treatment of Acanthopanax senticosus ameliorates high-altitude-induced heart injury by regulating NLRP3 inflammasome-mediated pyroptosis via the NLRP3/caspase-1 pathwayView study →

Human exposure in practice is indirect and small — as one of two marker eleutherosides within eleuthero preparations standardised to the combined eleutheroside B + E fraction (≥0.08% of dried root), not as the free isolate 12Reference 12Patyra A et al. · 2025ReviewEleutherococcus root: a comprehensive review of its phytochemistry and pharmacological potential in the context of its adaptogenic effectView study →. Note that the rodent studies frequently dose it by injection, bypassing the glycoside’s poor oral absorption; an oral human equivalent cannot be inferred from them. These are doses studied in research and are not a personal recommendation.

References

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