Suntory Limited

Suntory Holdings Limited

Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd.

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Kengo Akimoto

Sakayu Shimizu

Hiroshi Kawashima

Kenichi Higashiyama

Hideaki Yamada

Yoshifumi Shinmen

Michihiro Sugano

Sumio Asami

Motoo Sumida

Shigeaki Fujikawa

Toshiaki Yaguchi

Masashi Matsui

Tomohito Hamazaki

Yoshinori Kitagawa

Shigeki Sawazaki

Satomichi Yoshimura

Harukazu Fukami

Yoshiko Ono

Yoshihide Suwa

Toshinao Goda

Norio Nakamura

Nobushige Doisaki

Hajime Yoshizumi

Osamu Igarashi

Kazuhisa Ono

Kiyomi Furihata

Takafumi Ishihara

Seiko Shigeta

Yoshiyuki Ishikura

Yoshinobu Kiso

Tsunehiro Aki

Katsuya Nagai

Motoharu Arai

Hiroshige Okaichi

Yukikazu Saeki

Nobuaki Hirose

Youko Okaichi

Ayako Nakabayashi

Jiong-Yan Gu

Michiko Nonaka

Koji Yamada

Tetsuo Murakami

Yasuo Matsumura

Shiro Morimoto

Osamu Suzuki

Yoshihiko Koga

Yoshiharu Tanaka

Teruyuki Kanada

Chika Horikawa

Kiyomi Nippon SK Ltd Cent Res Lab Furihata

Nobushige Nippon SK Ltd Cent Reslab Doisaki

The object of the present invention is to provide a composition that has preventive or ameliorative action on symptoms or diseases caused by decreased brain function. This composition contains, as its active ingredient, arachidonic acid and/or a compound having arachidonic acid as a constituent fatty acid and, particularly, an alcohol ester of arachidonic acid or a triglyceride, phospholipid or glycolipid in which all or a portion of the constituent fatty acids are arachidonic acid.

Composition having effects of preventing or ameliorating conditions or diseases caused by brain hypofunction

There are provided microorganisms having a property of producing a lipid containing unsaturated fatty acids as constituent fatty acids and extracellularly secreting the produced lipid encapsulated in lipid particles, methods of screening said microorganisms, as well as methods of efficiently producing a fatty acid-containing lipid using said microorganisms. Furthermore, there are provided lipid particles encapsulating a lipid containing unsaturated fatty acids, and foods, cosmetics, and animal feeds comprising said lipid particles added thereto. Artificially treated microorganisms or microorganisms collected from nature are grown on a solid medium, and microbial strains that form lipid particles at the periphery of the colonies and/or microbial strains that, when cultured in a transparent liquid medium, make the culture liquid cloudy are selected. The microorganisms obtained are cultured, lipid-containing lipid particles secreted in the culture liquid, are separated from the culture liquid, and the lipid is separated and purified.

Microorganisms that extracellularly secrete lipids and methods of producing lipid and lipid particles encapsulating lipids using said microorganisms

A composition having a normalizing action for infradian rhythm and/or a synchronization promoting action for circadian rhythm (biological clock) containing arachidonic acid and/or an arachidonic acid-containing compound.

Composition for normalization of infradian rhythm

Microorganisms that extracellularly secrete lipid particles encapsulating lipids

An edible oil obtained by culturing a microorganism belong to the genussubgenusin a medium containing a nitrogen source derived from soybean is discussed. The oils obtained have a low 24,25-methylenecholest-5-en-3&#x3b2;-ol content.

Process for producing unsaturated fatty acid-containing oils

A lipid-improving agent containing a triglyceride(s) where a poly-unsaturated fatty acid is bonded to 2-position of a triglyceride(s).

Lipid-improving agent and composition containing lipid-improving agent

There are provided microorganisms, for example,, having a property of producing a lipid containing unsaturated fatty acids as constituent fatty acids and extracellularly secreting the produced lipid encapsulated in lipid vesicles, methods of screening said microorganisms, as well as methods of efficiently producing a fatty acid-containing lipid using said microorganisms. Furthermore, there are provided lipid vesicles encapsulating a lipid containing unsaturated fatty acids, and foods, cosmetics, and animal feeds comprising said lipid vesicles added thereto. Artificially treated microorganisms or microorganisms collected from nature are grown on a solid medium, and microbial strains that form lipid vesicles at the periphery of the colonies and/or microbial strains that, when cultured in a transparent liquid medium, make the culture liquid cloudy are selected. The microorganisms obtained are cultured, lipid-containing lipid vesicles secreted in the culture liquid, are separated from the culture liquid, and the lipid is separated and purified.

Microorganisms that extracellularly secrete lipids and methods of producing lipid and lipid vesicles encapsulating lipids using said microorganisms

The present invention relates to a production method of an oil containing triglyceride in which medium chain fatty acids are bound to the 1- and 3-positions of the triglyceride and polyunsaturated fatty acid is bound to the 2 position by allowing lipase, which specifically acts on ester bonds at the 1- and 3-positions that has been immobilized on a porous ion exchange resin support having a pore size of about 100 Angstroms or more, to act on a mixture of medium-chain fatty acids and raw material oil containing at least one polyunsaturated fatty acid selected from the group consisting of &#x3c9;6 series polyunsaturated fatty acid having 18 or more carbon atoms and 3 or more double bonds and &#x3c9;9 series polyunsaturated fatty acid having 18 or more carbon atoms and 2 or more double bonds, but not containing &#x3c9;3 series polyunsaturated fatty acid, oils and fats or triglycerides obtained by that method, and the use of the oils and fats or triglycerides in a food, beverage or pharmaceutical composition.

Production method of oil or fat containing polyunsaturated fatty acid-containing triglyceride

A process for producing a crude oil having lowered unsaponifiable matter content and/or ester-type sterol content and comprising a highly unsaturated fatty acid as a constituent fatty acid, characterized in that a microorganism capable of producing a fat or oil comprising an unsaturated fatty acid as a constituent fatty acid is cultured in a medium containing a nitrogen source concentration of 2 to 15% within a culture tank equipped with an agitation impeller satisfying the requirement that the ratio of the diameter of agitation impeller (=d) to the inner diameter of the culture tank (=D) is d/D=0.30 to 0.6.

Process for producing microbial fat or oil having lowered unsaponifiable matter content and said fat or oil

A process for producing lipids containing arachidonic acid comprising culturing a microorganism in which &#x3c9;3 desaturase activity has been decreased or is lacking at a temperature lower than the optimum growth temperature from the start of culturing or after culturing at the optimum growth temperature, said microorganism being obtained by the mutation treatment of a microorganism capable of producing arachidonic acid and belonging to the genusand the like; and then recovering lipids containing arachidonic acid from the culture.

Process for producing arachidonic acid-containing lipids

There are provided microorganisms having a property of producing a lipid containing unsaturated fatty acids as constituent fatty acids and extracellularly secreting the produced lipid encapsulated in lipid vesicles, methods of screening said microorganisms, as well as methods of efficiently producing a fatty acid-containing lipid using said microorganisms. Furthermore, there are provided lipid vesicles encapsulating a lipid containing unsaturated fatty acids, and foods, cosmetics, and animal feeds comprising said lipid vesicles added thereto. Artificially treated microorganisms or microorganisms collected from nature are grown on a solid medium, and microbial strains that form lipid vesicles at the periphery of the colonies and/or microbial strains that, when cultured in a transparent liquid medium, make the culture liquid cloudy are selected. The microorganisms obtained are cultured, lipid-containing lipid vesicles secreted in the culture liquid, are separated from the culture liquid, and the lipid is separated and purified.

Microorganism secreting out lipid and process for producing the lipid and lipid balls having the lipid encapsulating therein by using the mircroorganism

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Kengo Akimoto