From owner-drosophila@net.bio.net Sun Feb 26 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!agate!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!caen!msunews!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!info.curtin.edu.au!newsmaster From: Norman Gare Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila Subject: inokosterone Date: 27 Feb 1995 06:27:25 GMT Organization: CurtinUni Lines: 20 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3irrcd$cfu@info.curtin.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 134.7.126.35 X-UserAgent: Version 1.1.3 X-XXDate: Mon, 27 Feb 95 06:29:16 GMT Dear chemists and other colleagues in science. Can someone please advise where I can obtain inokosterone? This is a steroid hormone derived from ecdysone and has the systematic name of: (2beta,3beta,14alpha,20R,22R,26-hexahydroxy-5beta-cholest-7-en-6-one). According to one reference (Hoppe-Seyler's Z. Physiol. Chem. 359 1269, (1978)) Rohto Pharmaceuticals (Osaka, Japan) have supplied it previously. However, this company has not responded to fax enquiries. I need 5 to 10 milligrams of same for a start. Norman Gare (Dr) School of Biomedical Sciences Curtin University of Technology GPO Box U1987 PERTH WA 6001 cc: drosophila, parasitology .