Sapporo Breweries Limited

Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha

The Green Cross Corporation

Senju Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Toshio Kurihara

Fujio Kobayashi

Yasukazu Nakakita

Shinji Yamashita

Shinji Yagihashi

Tomoji Aotsuka

Tetsuo Matsui

Yoshiyuki Nakamura

Kazuhisa Yasui

Shigenori Emi

Shinichi Teshima

Hiromichi Ishikawa

Minoru Kamimura

Masachika Takashio

Hiroshi Hosono

Syuichi Segawa

Takema Hase

Tsuneo Hanyu

Takahiro Kumonaka

Hisao Yamamoto

Nao Yasui, Legal Representative

Toshiyuki Nishio

The present invention provides an antiallergic composition that is moderate for the human body and skin, and has reduced side-effects; the antiallergic composition comprises a cold-water extract from hop tissue or flavonoid glycosides separated from the cold-water extract.

Antiallergic composition

A method and apparatus for measuring the particle diameter of foam on a malt alcoholic drink, which can detennine the quality of the foam of the malt alcoholic drink objectively, are provided. The apparatus for measuring the particle diameter of foam on a malt alcoholic drink according to the present invention includes a laser light source for irradiating a linear laser beam onto the surface of a foam layer created on a malt alcoholic drink, an imaging device for imaging a laser line reflected on the surface of the foam layer to obtain an image of the laser line, and a calculating device for obtaining edge information of the laser line from the image of the laser line to calculate the particle diameter of foam in the foam layer based on the edge information.

Method and apparatus for measuring a particle diameter of foam on a malt alcoholic drink

Process for production compost

Apparatus for producing compost

Processes and apparatus for preparing compost

A sugar ester derivative of the general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein G stands for a group of the formula (A) ##STR2## or a group of the formula (B) ##STR3## wherein .lambda. means 0 or 1; at least one of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 means an ester residue of a saturated or unsaturated fatty acid having 1-30 carbon atoms and the other group means hydrogen atom or acetyl group, and R.sub.3 means a group of the formula (C) ##STR4## wherein X means a halogen atom, m means an integer of 0 to 4, Y means hydroxy group, an alkoxy group, a carboxyl group or sulfonic acid group, n means 0 or 1 and Z means nitro group or nitrovinyl group and its use. The sugar ester derivative of the general formula (I) is useful as a substrate for the measurement of lipase or esterase activities, and the reagents and the methods for measuring lipase or esterase activities which comprise said sugar ester derivative as the substrate are excellent in terms of reproducibility and sensitivity and enable the measurement of lipase or esterase activities in accordance with rate-assay method by an easy procedure.

Sugar ester derivatives, reagents for measurement of hydrolase activity

1,4-benzoxazine-2-acetic acid compound, method for production thereof

1,4-Benzothiazine-2-acetic acid derivatives having an excellent aldose reductase inhibitory activity which are useful for the prevention and treatment of diabetic complications, such as diabetic cataract, retinopathy, nephropathy and neuropathy.

1,4-benzothiazine-2-acetic acid derivatives

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Yaizu, Japan

Toshio Kurihara