Alpinumisoflavone has atheroprotective effects, may result from their ability to upregulate mechanisms promoting HDL-cholesterol and bile acid formation, it is endowed with estrogenic properties accounting, at least in part, for E. lysistemon effects.

Acitazanolast is an anti-allergic drug candidate.

Methylacetoacetic acid has been identified in the urine of patients with an inherited deficiency of propionyl-CoA carboxylase and after isoleucine loading in the diagnosis of 2-methylacetoacetyl-CoA thiolase deficiency.