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Journal of Insect Physiology | 1964

Effects of sterols on feeding and nutrition of the silkworm, Bombyx mori L.

Toshio Ito; Kenya Kawashima; Motoko Nakahara; Koji Nakanishi; Akira Terahara

Abstract The feeding responses of the silkworm, Bombyx mori L., as tested on agar-diets showed that β-sitosterol, isolated from mulberry leaves and identified by gas-chromatographic analysis, stimulates feeding. A commercial sample of β-sitosterol was entirely inactive but showed a stimulating activity after recrystallization from an organic solvent. Gas-phase chromatography of recrystallized commercial β-sitosterol showed three peaks, namely, β-sitosterol, stigmasterol, and probably campesterol. Pure stigmasterol also stimulated feeding. Campesterol of either 90 or 93 per cent purity, the only impurity of which was β-sitosterol, showed a positive stimulation. Soybean sterol, rape-seed sterol, and pulp (waste liquor) sterol, all of them mixtures of sterols, also stimulated feeding. On the other hand, cholesterol lacked stimulatory activity, as had been shown previously. Nutritional studies with these sterols were also carried out by the use of semi-defined diets. The results confirmed previous results that the silkworm requires dietary sterol for normal growth and development. In these nutritional tests the various sterols, except cholesterol, had almost equally high value, irrespective of their stimulatory action on the feeding. Even cholesterol improved the efficiency of diets. It therefore appears that dietary sterols are primarily nutritional but also play a minor part as phagostimulants. It is also evident that β-sitosterol does not explain the unique relation of the silkworm to mulberry leaves. Further, a triterpenoid, C30H50O, was isolated from mulberry leaves and shown to elicit feeding.


Archive | 1981

ML-236B Derivatives and their preparation

Akira Terahara; Minoru Tanaka


Archive | 1975

Physiologically active substances

Akira Endo; Masao Kuroda; Akira Terahara; Yoshio Tsujita; Chihiro Tamura


The Journal of Antibiotics | 1983

Microbial hydroxylation of ML-236B (compactin) and monacolin K (MB-530B).

Nobufusa Serizawa; Keiko Nakagawa; Kiyoshi Hamano; Yoshio Tsujita; Akira Terahara; Harumitsu Kuwano


Archive | 1982

ML-236B Derivatives

Akira Terahara; Minoru Tanaka


Archive | 1982

Process for preparing 3-hydroxy-ML-236B derivatives known as M-4 and M-4'

Akira Terahara; Minoru Tanaka


The Journal of Antibiotics | 1983

Microbial hydroxylation of ML-236B (compactin) Studies on microorganisms capable of 3.BETA.-hydroxylation of ML-236B.

Nobufusa Serizawa; Setsu Serizawa; Keiko Nakagawa; Kouhei Furuya; Takao Okazaki; Akira Terahara


Archive | 1977

ML-236B carboxylic acid derivatives and their use as antihyperlipemic agents

Akira Endo; Akira Terahara; Noritoshi Kitano; Akira Ogiso; Seiji Mitsui


Archive | 1975

Physiologically active substances and fermentative process for producing the same

Akira Endo; Masao Kuroda; Akira Terahara; Yoshio Tsujita; Chihiro Tamura


Archive | 1979

4-Hydroxy-2-pyrone derivatives having antihyperlipaemic activity

Hidehiko Oka; Akira Terahara; Akira Endo

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Minoru Tanaka

Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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