Sterols that modify moulting in insects
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Luu, Bang; Werner, Frederic
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Article
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1996
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The development of insects is under the control of a steroid hormone, ecdysone. This paper reviews suicide substrate type inactivators designed to inhibit the biosynthesis of ecdysone. Several series of acetylenic derivatives of cholesterol were synthesized and their biological effects on the protho