1. (1a) Parts of these data were presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, Kyushu branches, Abstracts Paper, p. 65, Nagasaki, Japan, 1989 and at the 110th Annual Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, Abstracts Paper, vol. 2, p. 171, Sapporo, Japan, 1990.
2. (1b) – Part XXVII: , , , Liebigs Ann. Chem. 1991, 595.
3. , , , , Liebigs Ann. Chem. 1991, 1.
4. This starfish species is presumed to be Asterias amurensis Lütken.
5. Glucosylceramide Having a Novel Tri-Unsaturated Long-Chain Base from the Spermatozoa of the Starfish, Asterias amurensis1