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Science 13 September 1974:
Vol. 185. no. 4155, pp. 958 - 960
DOI: 10.1126/science.185.4155.958
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Mitogenic Activity of Sterculic Acid, a Cyclopropenoid Fatty Acid

D. G. Scarpelli 1

1 Department of Pathology and Oncology, University of Kansas Medical Center, College of Health Sciences and Hospital, Kansas City 66103

Hepatocytes in rainbow trout and rat are stimulated to augmented DNA synthesis and cell division by low concentrations of cyclopropenoid fatty acids in the diet. Sterculic acid isolated as the methyl ester from Sterculia foetida oil has been identified as one of the mitogenic principles.


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