文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Wu, Yu ¹ ; Li, Qiuhua ² ; Cao, Junxi ² ; Fan, Fenling ¹ ; Gan, Lishe ¹ ; Wu, Rihui ¹ ; Jin, Jingwei ¹ ; Chen, Ruohong ² ; Sun, Lingli ² ; Zhang, Zhenbiao ² ; Lai, Xingfei ² ; Wong, Wing-Leung ¹ ; Sun, Shili ² ; Li, Dongli ¹ ;

作者机构： 1.Wuyi Univ, Sch Biotechnol & Hlth Sci, Jiangmen 529020, Peoples R China

2.Guangdong Acad Agr Sci, Tea Res Inst, Guangdong Prov Key Lab Tea Plant Resources Innovat, Guangzhou 510640, Peoples R China

3.Inter Natl Healthcare Innovat Inst Jiangmen, Jiangmen, Peoples R China

关键词： aged black tea; constipation; intestinal neurotransmitter; AQP3; AQP9

期刊名称：FOOD & NUTRITION RESEARCH （ 影响因子：3.3； 五年影响因子：5.0 ）

ISSN： 1654-6628

年卷期： 2023 年 67 卷

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Background: Black tea is fully fermented tea with abundant functional components that benefit the gastroin-testinal tract. But whether black tea extract relieves constipation is unknown. Therefore, we used loperamide to induce constipation in mice to assess the therapeutical effect of extracts from aged black tea with different storage times. Design: Sixty-three C57BL/6J male mice were randomly divided into Control group (Con), Model group (Mod), Positive group (Pos), aged 6 years group (15Y), aged 4 years group (17Y), aged 2 years group (19Y), and unaged group (21Y). Mice were given loperamide (20 mg/kg, twice a day) to induce constipation for 10 days, and black tea extracts (500 mg/kg) were intragastrically given for 7 days while continuing modeling. Results: The results showed that black tea extracts relieved constipation symptoms by improving defecation weight, fecal water content, and gastrointestinal transit rate. Black tea extracts can also protect colon tissue, regulate serum neurotransmitters, increase the levels of excitatory neurotransmitters motilin (MTL) and sub-stance P (SP), and decrease the levels of inhibitory neurotransmitters vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) and nitric oxide (NO). Immunohistochemistry (IHC) showed that black tea extracts were able to reduce AQP3 and AQP9 expression in the colon of constipated mice. In addition, Reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) showed that black tea extracts could decrease AQP3 and AQP9 mRNA expression. The relief effect of aged black tea (15Y) with the longest storage was better than that of other years, which may be due to the role of active ingredients such as thearubigins (TRs), soluble sugar, tea polysaccharide (TPS), gallic acid (GA), and catechin gallate (CG) in aged black tea. Conclusions: Based on these results, we believe that regular consumption of black tea is effective in relieving constipation, and that black tea is more effective in relieving constipation as the storage time increases.