Chemical and Pharmacological Sutudies on Globefish Poison

1). Paperchromatographry of acidified aqueous extracts of livers and ovaies of globefish (Spheroides rubripes),　which have different toxic potencies, was carried out to find reducing sugars with aniline hydrogen phthalate and ammonia silver nitrate and free amino acids with ninhydrin. 　　　 2). Two reducing sugar spots were obtained. One spot which was assumed to be a hexose, was identified to be glucose, but the other spot, presumably a pentose, was not identified. 3). With liver extracts, six to ten spots of amino acid were obtained, and with ovaries, one to six spots. The spot of presumably alanine gave the strongest color in the former material, and the spot of presumably glycine was the strongest in color in the latter material. 4). No correlation between reducing sugars or amino acids and the potency of the globefish poison could be recognized.