Marine algae colorants: Antioxidant, anti-diabetic properties and applications in food industry

T Imchen, KS Singh - Algal Research, 2023 - Elsevier
In numerous food businesses, natural pigments are frequently utilized as food colorants.
Colorants give nutritional value to food items in addition to improving its appeal …

Algal metabolites: An inevitable substitute for antibiotics

S Bhowmick, A Mazumdar, A Moulick, V Adam - Biotechnology advances, 2020 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance is rising at a pace that is difficult to cope with; circumvention of this issue
requires fast and efficient alternatives to conventional antibiotics. Algae inhabit a wide span …

Total phenolic content, biomass composition, and antioxidant activity of selected marine microalgal species with potential as aquaculture feed

V Andriopoulos, MD Gkioni, E Koutra, SG Mastropetros… - Antioxidants, 2022 - mdpi.com
There has been growing interest in microalgal biomolecules for health and cosmetics, as
well as in the use of microalgae as aquaculture feed due to the need to replace fishmeal and …

Extraction, purification and characterization of phycoerythrin from Michrochaete and its biological activities

S Afreen, T Fatma - Biocatalysis and agricultural biotechnology, 2018 - Elsevier
Phycoerythrin,(PE) is red colored naturally abundant protein and is found in red algae and
cyanobacteria. Till now, red algae are being characterized and exploited commercially for …

One-pot green synthesis of magnetic adsorbent via Anabaena sphaerica and its performance towards Remazol Red dye removal from aqueous media

MS Abdel-Wahed, AS El-Kalliny, FA Shehata… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
A simple one-pot green approach was adopted for synthesizing novel surface-modified
Anabaena sphaerica biomass of various functional groups with the superparamagnetic Fe 3 …

In vitro screening of antimicrobial, antioxidant, cytotoxic activities, and characterization of bioactive substances from freshwater cyanobacteria Oscillatoria sp. SSCM01 …

P Nainangu, APM Antonyraj, K Subramanian… - Biocatalysis and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Cyanobacteria are rich sources of structurally novel and biologically active metabolites with
antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, and anticancer activities. The present study aimed to …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of antimicrobial, antioxidant and cytotoxicity potential of R-phycoerythrin extracted from Gracilaria corticata seaweed

MP Sudhakar, G Dharani, A Paramasivam - Current Research in Green …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the present study, phycoerythrin pigment protein was extracted and purified from
Gracilaria corticata (marine macroalga). The concentration of phycoerythrin (PE) obtained …

Antioxidant and cytoprotective properties of cyanobacteria: Potential for biotechnological applications

A Guerreiro, MA Andrade, C Menezes, F Vilarinho… - Toxins, 2020 - mdpi.com
Antioxidant compounds from cyanobacteria may constitute a natural alternative to current
synthetic antioxidants, which contain preservatives and suspected toxicity. In this work, we …

Assessing the kinetic model of hydro-distillation and chemical composition of Aquilaria malaccensis leaves essential oil

M Samadi, ZZ Abidin, R Yunus, DRA Biak… - Chinese Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
This study aimed to model the kinetic of hydro-distillation of Aquilaria malaccensis leaves oil
in order to understand and optimize the extraction process. In addition, this study, for the first …

Antioxidant activity and phenolic profile in filamentous cyanobacteria: The impact of nitrogen

D Blagojević, O Babić, M Rašeta, F Šibul… - Journal of applied …, 2018 - Springer
In the present study, ethanolic extracts of ten cyanobacterial strains cultivated under different
nitrogen conditions were assessed for the phenolic content and antioxidant activity. The …