On a rabbit hyperlipemia induced by a fungic galactomannane peptide

Summary I.v. injection into rabbits of a fungic galactomannane peptide isolated from the culture medium ofAspergillus oryzae induced the apparition, 20 h later, of an hypertriglyceridemia, with a concomittant decrease of about 70% of the post-heparin lipoprotein lipase activity. The same effect had been obtained earlier with a carbohydrate-rich fraction purified from a crude papain preparation. The 2 fractions are compared.