Microalgae metabolites: A rich source for food and medicine

Microalgae are one of the important components in food chains of aquatic ecosystems and have been used for human consumption as food and as medicines. The wide diversity of compounds synthesized from different metabolic pathways of fresh and marine water algae provide promising sources of fatty acid...

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Autores principales: Sathasivam, Ramaraj, Radhakrishnan, Ramalingam, Hashem, Abeer, Abd_Allah, Elsayed F.
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Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6486502/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31048995
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sjbs.2017.11.003
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description Microalgae are one of the important components in food chains of aquatic ecosystems and have been used for human consumption as food and as medicines. The wide diversity of compounds synthesized from different metabolic pathways of fresh and marine water algae provide promising sources of fatty acids, steroids, carotenoids, polysaccharides, lectins, mycosporine-like amino acids, halogenated compounds, polyketides, toxins, agar agar, alginic acid and carrageenan. This review discusses microalgae used to produce biological substances and its economic importance in food science, the pharmaceutical industry and public health.
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spelling pubmed-64865022019-05-02 Microalgae metabolites: A rich source for food and medicine Sathasivam, Ramaraj Radhakrishnan, Ramalingam Hashem, Abeer Abd_Allah, Elsayed F. Saudi J Biol Sci Article Microalgae are one of the important components in food chains of aquatic ecosystems and have been used for human consumption as food and as medicines. The wide diversity of compounds synthesized from different metabolic pathways of fresh and marine water algae provide promising sources of fatty acids, steroids, carotenoids, polysaccharides, lectins, mycosporine-like amino acids, halogenated compounds, polyketides, toxins, agar agar, alginic acid and carrageenan. This review discusses microalgae used to produce biological substances and its economic importance in food science, the pharmaceutical industry and public health. Elsevier 2019-05 2017-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6486502/ /pubmed/31048995 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sjbs.2017.11.003 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of King Saud University. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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