Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult Honsha

Masaaki Watanuki

Haruji Sawada

Teruo Yokokura

Masato Nagaoka

Ritsuo Aiyama

Harumi Mizukoshi

Katsuhisa Harada

Tunekazu Watanabe

Masako Nakazawa

Takashi Makino

Seizaburo Kobayashi

Yoriko Deguchi

Kuniko Osada

Kouichi Hirai

Masayoshi Furusiro

Mahoko Motoike

The present invention relates to an &#x3b1;-amylase activity inhibitor, and to food and beverages comprising the &#x3b1;-amylase activity inhibitor. The &#x3b1;-amylase activity inhibitor of the present invention exhibits remarkably excellent &#x3b1;-amylase inhibitory activity as compared with guava extract. Accordingly, food and beverages containing the &#x3b1;-amylase activity inhibitor are diet food and beverages suitable for people of high blood-sugar level or hyderlipidemia.

&#x3b1;-amylase activity inhibitors

The present invention relates to antihypertensives and food and drinks, containing as effective component polysaccharideglycopeptide complexes derived from cell wall of Gram positive bacteria (also referred to as peptidoglycan). The present invention provides extremely strong and safe antihypertensives and food and drinks, which may exert hypotensive effects if administered orally to spontaneous hypertensive rats and renal hypertensive rats at a single dose as low as 1 mg/kg.

Antihypertensives containing polysaccharide peptidoglycan complexes

A one step method of producing conjugated ursodeoxycholic acids from conjugated lithocholic acids by means of microbial transformation which comprises subjecting the conjugated lithocholic acids to the action of microorganisms which belong to Mortierella and which are capable of producing conjugated ursodeoxycholic acids from conjugated lithocholic acids.

Method for producing conjugated ursodeoxycholic acids by means of

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Masaaki Watanuki