Abstract
Of fatty acid esters of myoinositol examined, myoinositol-hexaacetate, -hexapropionate, and -hexabutyrate showed similar growth promoting effect as free myoinositol upon young rats, whereas -hexavalerate, -tetrabutyrate, -monooleate and -monolinoleate showed almost no growth effect and some of them showed rather inhibitory effect. Lipotropic effect of the fatty acid esters of myoinositol having growth promoting effect on young rats were then examined by Handler's procedure, and it was found that they all showed beneficial effect on the repression of fatty liver. The lipotropic action of myoinositol hexanicotinate was obscure.
