1Department of Food and Nutrition, Kyungnam University, Changwon, South Korea
2Department of Food and Nutrition, Chanshin University, Changwon, South Korea
3Department of Food Science and Biotechnology of Animal Resources, Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea
4Department of Food and Nutrition, College of Human Ecology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Journal of Food and Nutrition Research.
2017,
Vol. 5 No. 11, 794-800
DOI: 10.12691/jfnr-5-11-1
Copyright © 2017 Science and Education PublishingCite this paper: Eunju Park, Bo-Young Seo, Yoe-Chang Yoon, Seung-Min Lee. Beneficial Effects of Hydrolysates of Whey Proteins in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats.
Journal of Food and Nutrition Research. 2017; 5(11):794-800. doi: 10.12691/jfnr-5-11-1.
Correspondence to: Seung-Min Lee, Department of Food and Nutrition, College of Human Ecology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. Email:
leeseungmin@yonsei.ac.krAbstract
We compared the effects of whey protein concentrate (WPC, control) with its hydrolystes either by protease M or protease S (the hydrolysates) in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) in comparison to normotensive Wistar Kyoto rats (WKY). First, the hydrolysates demonstrated higher in vitro angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibition than WPC. In an 8 week of animal study, the hydrolysates decreased systolic blood pressure (SBP) and ACE activity in aorta with a greater reduction than WPC. A significant reduction in tail moment, an indicator of oxidative DNA damage was also detected in the hydrolysates compared to the WPC. Especially protease M-treated hydrolysate show low superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity. Our data indicated that the hydrolysates appeared to have greater blood pressure lowering effects than WPC possibly by greater inhibition of aorta ACE activity along with significant antioxidant roles.
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