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Lactose aborption kinetics in Zambian African subjects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

G. C. Cook ,
N.-G. Asp  and
A. Dahlqvist
G. C. Cook
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, The University of Zambia, PO Box 2379, Lusaka, Zambia
N.-G. Asp
Affiliation:
Department of Nutrition, Chemical Centre, The University of Lund, Sweden
A. Dahlqvist
Affiliation:
Department of Nutrition, Chemical Centre, The University of Lund, Sweden
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Abstract

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1. Using a double-lumen tube perfusion system, solutions of lactose (50, 125 and 250 mmol/l) were introduced into the upper jejunum of six Zambian African subjects. By reference to a non-absorbable marker, polyethylene glycol, mol. wt 4000, the rates of absorption of lactose from each solution were calculated for a 300 mm jejunal segment.

2. In three subjects total lactase activity of the jejunal mucosa and brush-border lactase and other disaccharidase activities were estimated. The jejunal total and brush-border lactase activities were low. Jejunal morphology was normal for African subjects.

3. All subjects suffered abdominal colic and diarrhoea during and after the lactose perfusions. The kinetic curves for lactose were very shallow, and with all perfused solutions, there was a net movement of water into the jejunal lumen. The limited number of subjects, and the low and narrow range of enzyme activity, did not permit correlation between lactose absorption rate and lactase activity.

4. In Zambian African subjects with adult hypolactasia, the jejunal mucosa absorbs a very small proportion of the perfused lactose.

Type
Clinical and Human Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , November 1973 , pp. 519 - 527
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1973

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