Org41841 is an agonist of luteinising hormone/chorionic gonadotropin receptor and thyroid stimulating hormone receptor (EC50s: 0.2 and 7.7 μM, respectively) and can be used to study hyperthyroidism.

Amylin, a 37-amino acid polypeptide that is structurally related to calcitonin, is secreted from the B cells of the pancreas. Amylin has anoretic effects in rats. Amylin may be responsible for the etiology of insulin resistance of type II diabetes mellitus through its modulation of peripheral effects of insulin.

Dehydrodiconiferyl alcohol (DHCA) is a lignan isolated from calabash that inhibits osteoclast differentiation and oophorectomy induced bone loss by acting as an estrogen receptor agonist.