Quercetin alleviates activities of intestinal and renal disaccharidases in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats

Rashmi, Ramachandra and Shetty, A. K. and Salimath, P. V. (2005) Quercetin alleviates activities of intestinal and renal disaccharidases in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. Molecular Nutrition and Food Research, 49. pp. 355-360.

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Abstract

Specific activities of both intestinal and renal dissacharidases, such as sucrase, maltase, and lactase, were altered in diabetic rats. Our study was focused to evaluate the effect of feeding quercetin – a bioflavanoid on intestinal and renal dissacharidases in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. The rats were fed with 0.1% quercetin in diet. A reduction in intestinal maltase and sucrase, activities in quercetin- fed diabetic rats was observed in contrast to the increased activities in the starch-fed diabetic rats. A significant amelioration in renal dissacharidase activities in quercetin-fed diabetic rats was observed when compared to decreased activity in starch-fed diabetic rats.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Diabetes Disaccharidase Lactase Maltase Quercetin Sucrase
Subjects:	600 Technology > 01 Medical sciences > 04 Diabetes Mellitus 500 Natural Sciences and Mathematics > 07 Life Sciences > 03 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology > 07 Enzyme Biochemistry
Divisions:	Dept. of Biochemistry
Depositing User:	Food Sci. & Technol. Information Services
Date Deposited:	22 Jun 2007 09:40
Last Modified:	01 Jul 2015 12:00
URI:	http://ir.cftri.res.in/id/eprint/1246

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