To meet the criteria of modern extraction, it is essential to use solvents that simultaneously reach standards green chemistry and allow extraction a wide spectrum bio-compounds. Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents (NaDES), as solution, this difficult task represent satisfactory alternative organic solvents. Microalgae are recognized sustainable resource produce polar non-polar metabolites, such car...

Eichhornia crassipes (Mart) Solms is an invasive weed known to out-compete native plants and negatively affect microbes including phytoplankton. The spread and population density of E. crassipes will be favored by global warming. The aim here was to identify compounds that underlie the effects on microbes. The entire plant of E. crassipes was collected from El Zomor canal, River Nile (Egypt), w...

Supercritical water gasification (SCWG) is an alternative thermochemical technology for the conversion of wet biomass in a high heat value product gases, such as syngas and hydrogen. Algal biomass has been suggested as one promising option to produce biomass for use as fuels and chemical feedstocks with high area-specific yields. In this study, the thermodynamic analysis of SCWG of microalgae b...

Eukaryotic microalgae and Cyanobacteria have immense biodiversity, are an almost unexploited resource. They been identified as a hopeful commercially valuable resource of high-value products such proteins, fatty acids, pigments, vitamins, alkaloids, flavonoids steroids etc., in the food aquaculture industries. Microalgae promising candidate for production useful due to their low cost biomass pr...

The anti-atherogenic effects of spirulina (Spirulina platensis) were investigated in the New Zealand White (NZW) rabbit model. The animal had hypercholesterolemia induced by being fed a high cholesterol diet (HCD) containing 0.5% cholesterol for 4 wk, and then fed a HCD supplemented with 1 or 5% spirulina (SP1 or SP5) for an additional 8 wk. Spirulina supplementation lowered intimal surface of ...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: LCPUFAs: Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids; ω6: Omega-6 Family; GLA: γ-Linolenic Acid; AA: Arachidonic Acid; ω3: Omega-3 Family; EPA: Eicosapentaenoic Acid; DHA: Docosahexaenoic Acid; AL: Linoleic Acid; AAL: Alpha-Linolenic Acids; vitamin A: Beta-Carotene; vitamin K: Phylloquinone; vitamin E: Alpha-Tocopherol; B1: Thiamine; B2: R...

In this experiment, a total of 128 Hy-line W36 hens at 63 weeks of age were used. The hens were put at random into 4 treatment groups (4 replicates and 32 hens per treatment) and were fed four different diets: three diets with different levels of Spirulina (1.5, 2.0 and 2.5%) and one control group based on wheat and soybean meal. All birds were housed in commercial cages, had ad libitum access ...

Spirulina maxima, which is used as a food additive, is a microalga rich in protein and other essential nutrients. Spirulina contains phenolic acids, tocopherols and beta-carotene which are known to exhibit antioxidant properties. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the antioxidant capacity of a Spirulina extract. The antioxidant activity of a methanolic extract of Spirulina was determi...