Monomethyl lithospermate has potential antiviral activity, alleviating ischemic stroke injury in vivo in middle cerebral artery occlusion mice by activating PI5K/Akt signaling and protecting oxygen-glucose deprivation/reoxygenation-induced SHSY-3Y cells in vitro.

Calcein is a fluorescent dye and self-quenching probe that used as an indicator of lipid vesicle leakage,and a complexometric indicator for titration of calcium ions with EDTA, and for fluorometric determination of calcium.

Methylguanidine (MG) is a guanidine compound deriving from protein catabolism. It is also a product of putrefaction.