Asterosaponins A and B were first isolated from the Japanese starfish, Asterias amurensis, by Yasumoto et al.' --who recognized that the both saponins contain the same aglycones being attached with four or five molecules of sugars and a molecule of sulfuric acid. 2-5 Subsequently, we isolated the
A novel steroid, 3β, 6α, 23ξ - trihydroxy - 5α - cholest - 9(11) - en, from asterosaponins
✍ Scribed by Susumu Ikegami; Yuji Kamiya; Saburo Tamura
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1972
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 147 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-4039
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