Suntory Holdings Limited

Suntory Limited

Hajime Komura

Koichi Nakahara

Nobuo Tsuruoka

Takako Inui

Yoshinori Beppu

Kazuo Onaga

Norihiko Kageyama

Hiroshi Koda

Katsuya Nagai

Mariko Sugimura

Toshihiko Takatani

Kazuyasu Iida

Kentaro Shinoda

Mihoko Kurokawa

Mihoko c/o Suntory Products Development Center Kurokawa

A novel compound causing an oral cavity stimulus such as acridness, which is expressed by the following structural formula (I): 

Oral cavity stimulating substance

There is provided a pharmaceutical agent, food, or beverage for treating or preventing a disease or condition that can be ameliorated by inhibiting serotonin reuptake, comprising a clinically-effective amount of (1S,3S)-1-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-&#x3b2;-carboline-3-carboxylic acid.

Pharmaceutical, food or beverage having inhibitory activity on serotonin transporter

It is intended to provide a safe composition for treating a disease or condition relating to autonomic nervous activity which has an autonomic nervous control effect; in particular, an effect of enhancing parasympathetic nervous activity. Thus, a medicinal composition, a food or a drink containing L-phenyl lactic acid and/or D-phenyl lactic acid and having an autonomic nervous control effect is provided.

Medicinal composition, food or drink having effect of enhancing parasympathetic nervous activity

A novel compound causing an oral cavity stimulus such as acridness, which is expressed by the following structural formula (I). 

An apparatus for detecting a volatile dissolved substance includes a sample vesselcapable of holding therein an approximately fixed amount of liquid A, B with leaving a space at an upper inner section thereof; a nozzlecapable of blowing off bubbles into the liquid held in the sample vessel, and a pressurized gas feeding device L capable of feeding pressurized gas to the nozzle for the blowing of the bubbles. Within a communication passagecommunicating with the upper section of the sample vessel, there is exposed a detecting portion of a sensor S capable of detecting a volatile component, so that the sensor can detect the volatile component which has evaporated from the liquid in the sample vessel and entered the communication passage. The apparatus further includes a liquid vesselcapable of holding the liquid therein, a feeding mechanism D capable of feeding the liquid of the liquid vessel to the sample vessel and an overflow mechanism E for causing an amount of the liquid exceeding the approximately fixed amount to overflow from the sample vessel to the outside of the vessel.

Apparatus and method for detecting volatile dissolved substance

The present invention provides a gas detection method and detection apparatus that provide better sensitivity and faster recovery after response than conventional gas detection methods and apparatus, by improving on these conventional methods and apparatus. The present invention is a gas detection method, in which the target gas is detected while oxygen is supplied to a sensor elementof a metal oxide-type gas sensor, wherein the target gas is detected while water vapor is supplied to the sensor element, and is also a gas detection apparatus equipped with an oxygen supply meansfor supplying oxygen to a sensor elementof a metal oxide-type gas sensor, said gas detection apparatus being provided with a water vapor supply meansfor supplying water vapor to the sensor element

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Mishima-gun, Japan

Hajime Komura