`Kaala' and `Waialua' Peppers

Hot Peppers and Pain

it was not until 1997 that a capsaicin receptor was 1056. terina et al., 1997), which they named the vallinoid recep-3505–3517. heat was activating the VR1 directly or through other thermally sensitive molecules. This study also generated a host of other questions regarding the endogenous ligand for the VR1: its physiological function, which neu-rons express the VR1 protein, and whether there a...

TRPV1: Pain, Peppers, and Prostaglandins

: Oxidative stress induces numerous biological problems. Lipid oxidation and peroxidation appear to be important steps by which exposure to oxidative stress leads the body to a disease state. For its protection, the body has evolved to respond to and eliminate peroxidation products through the acquisition of binding proteins, reducing and conjugating enzymes, and excretion systems. During the p...

Comparison of the ability to recover physiological traits of hot peppers and sweet peppers after high temperature stress

Virus Disease Resistance in Peppers

In certain localities within the state par ticular viruses may cause more damage than others. In central Florida tobacco etch, to bacco mosaic, and potato Y viruses were most frequently encountered by Anderson and Corbett (1). Simons (15, 17) found the cu cumber mosaic and potato Y viruses most detrimental in south Florida. Occurrence of the latter disease has been correlated with potato produc...

Ultrasound-assisted extraction of capsaicinoids from peppers.

The development of a rapid, reproducible and simple method of extraction of the majority capsaicinoids (nordihydrocapsaicin, capsaicin, dihydrocapsaicin, homocapsaicin and homodihydrocapsaicin) present in hot peppers by the employment of ultrasound-assisted extraction is reported. The study has covered four possible solvents for the extraction (acetonitrile, methanol, ethanol and water), the op...