Effect of Vegetable Extracts on the Transepithelial Permeability of the Human Intestinal Caco-2 Cell Monolayer

Abstract

The Effect of vegetable extracts on intestinal epithelial permeability was investigated by using Caco-2 cell monolayers as the model system. Among 32 kinds of vegetable samples, the extract of sweet pepper is considered to have contained certain substances that could modulate the tight junction permeability.