α-Ecdysone

Japanese: α-エクジソン - あるふあえくじそん
α-Ecdysone

...The name is a compound word of ecdysis (molting) and one (on), which means a ketone group. It is also known as α-ecdysone and prothoracic hormone, and is sometimes called the molting hormone or metamorphosis hormone when 20-hydroxyecdysone (same as 20-OH-ecdysone, ecdysterone, β-ecdysone, and crust ecdysone) is included. Isolation and structural determination began in 1948 by the German Butenandt A. Butenandt and Karlson P. Karlson group, and took 17 years to complete, but the total dry weight of silkworm pupae used was 3.5 tons. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "α-ecdysone" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…名称はecdysis(脱皮)とケトン基を意味するone(オン)の合成語。α‐エクジソン,前胸腺ホルモンの別称があり,時に20‐ヒドロキシエクジソン(20‐OH‐エクジソン,エクジステロン,β‐エクジソン,クラストエクジソンに同じ)を含めて脱皮ホルモンあるいは変態ホルモンともいう。単離と構造決定はドイツのブテナントA.ButenandtとカールソンP.Karlson一派によって1948年から始められ,17年の歳月を費やしたが,使用された蚕のさなぎは,乾燥重量で総計3.5tに及んだ。…

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