Background: Environmental toxicants have been found to induce multiple adverse effects on human and animal’s body organs including, kidney and immune system. Presently, this experiment was designed to assess the nephro-protective and immune-stimulant effects of spirulina platensis microalgae against lead acetate induced attenuated body immune response and oxidative renal damages. Methods: 40 ma...

Microalgae are a sustainable source of bioactive compounds like carotenoids, free fatty acids and especially polyunsaturated acids. The extraction such nonpolar metabolites usually involved or toxic solvent methanol hexane. We report the first screening Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents for pigments from spirulina. Solvent with wide range polarity was screened, resulting extracts were compared acc...

Abstract Microalgae cultivation medium was an important component which is related to the economic aspects and its effects on cell life in culture. Synthetic widely used but because of less economical, necessary look for alternative substitute medium. This could come from industrial household waste. Some organic microalgae Spirulina platensis have been studied. One source waste other industries...

In order to find out optimum culture condition for algal growth, the effect of light irradiance and temperature on growth rate, biomass composition and pigment production of Spirulina platensis were studied in axenic batch cultures. Growth kinetics of cultures showed a wide range of temperature tolerance from 20 °C to 40 °C. Maximum growth rate, cell production with maximum accumulation of chlo...

Abstract We tested the influence of genetic variation on responses to natural and artificial diets in Varroa -resistant Pol-line Russian honey bee stocks. Newly emerged workers from six colonies per stock were fed pollen, spirulina (blue-green microalgae), sucrose-only 144 total cages. Diet type had a strong effect sugar intake, body weight, fat lipid content, vitellogenin ( vg ) expression. Sp...

Comparative study of the removal of the dye Reactive Red 120 (RR-120) from aqueous effluents from textile industry using microalgae Spirulina platensis (SP) and commercial active carbon (AC) were carried out. The batch adsorption systems were evaluated with respect to pH, agitation time, temperature and initial concentration of the dye. The maximum adsorption capacity for dye RR-120 were found ...

While humans have taken limited advantage of natural populations of microalgae for centuries (Nostoc in Asia and Spirulina in Africa and North America for sustenance), it is only recently that we have come to realize the potential of microalgal biotechnology. Microalgal biotechnology has the potential to produce a vast array of products including foodstuffs, industrial chemicals, compounds with...