 BackShort Report ScienceAsia 8 (1982): 053-057 |doi: 10.2306/scienceasia1513-1874.1982.08.053
EFFECT OF RED PEPPER AND CAPSAICIN ON RAT INTESTINAL DISACCHARIDASES.
PENSIRI JONIETZABSTRACT: The activities of disaccharidases such as maltase, lactase, sucrase and trehalase in the rat jejunum were inhibited in vitro by capsaicin in a concentration range of 10-7 to 10-2 M after 1 hour incubation. When red pepper and capsaicin were introduced to rats by tube-feeding for 1 and 3 days or ad libitum feeding for 7 days at the amount of daily human consumption in Thailand (red pepper 0.1 g and capsaicin 0.1 mg per kg body weight), jejunal disaccharidase activities of rats fed red pepper and capsaicin did not show significant differences compared with those of control rats. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Silpakorn University, Nakorn Pathom, Thailand. Received 7 November 1981
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