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Therapeutic Potential of Marine Foods: A Review
Published in Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria, Megh R. Goyal, Health Benefits of Secondary Phytocompounds from Plant and Marine Sources, 2021
Zohaib Hassan, Muhammad Kamran Khan, Farhan Saeed, Sadia Hassan, Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria
Phycobiliproteins in marine algae are extensively applied as natural dye in foods and cosmetic industry. Extensively used compounds as dyes in food and cosmetic industry are C-phycocyanin, C-phycocyanin, and R-phycoerythrin [144]. Compared to ardenia and indigo to give bright blue color in food items, phycobili proteins (despite their decreased stability under heat and light) are approved for multipurpose use in foods. Antioxidant functions of phycoerythrobilin isolated from Porphyra sp. were also explored [180]. Based on research studies on biocompounds from marine organisms, natural pigments are more effective and non-poisonous having the highest antioxidant activity.
Microalgal Pigments as Natural Color
Published in Hafiz Ansar Rasul Suleria, Megh R. Goyal, Masood Sadiq Butt, Phytochemicals from Medicinal Plants, 2019
K. G. Sreekala, Malairaj Sathuvan, Javee Anand, Karuppan Ramamoorthy, Vengatesh Babu, S. Nagaraj
C-phycocyanin possesses anti-inflammatory, radical scavenging, lipid-lowering, and antioxidation effects, thus suggesting its role in combating cardiovascular diseases and atherosclerosis.52Spirulina fusiformis Voroni-khin, used as functional food and theraupetic, has bioactives that possess anti-hyperglycemic activity or anti-diabetes activity, and when fed with phycocyanin in mice was showed to decrease the blood glucose level.50
Microalgae and Cyanobacteria as a Potential Source of Anticancer Compounds
Published in Gokare A. Ravishankar, Ranga Rao Ambati, Handbook of Algal Technologies and Phytochemicals, 2019
Phycocyanin is one type of the accessory pigments, phycobiliproteins, found in cyanobacteria, which are important in capturing light and transferring energy in photosynthesis. There are three types of phycocyanin, namely C-phycocyanin, R-phycocyanin and allophycocyanin. C-phycocyanin has been reported to have various pharmacological activities, including anticancer activity, due to its β-subunit (Liu et al. 2016; Hao et al. 2018). In general, the anticancer activity of C-phycocyanin is due to its inhibition of tumor cell cycles, induction of tumor cell apoptosis and autophagy (Jiang et al. 2017). C-phycocyanin has no one specific target but acts in the membrane, cytoplasm and nucleus with diverse mechanisms of action (Fernandes e Silva et al. 2018). The cell targets of C-phycocyanin include MDR1 gene, cytoskeletal proteins and COX-2 enzymes, which make it capable of killing cancer cells resistant to chemotherapy.
Potential Protective Effect of Spirulina Platensis on Sodium Arsenite Induced Cardiotoxicity in Male Rats
Published in Tissue Barriers, 2022
Amal Albtoosh, Fardous Karawya, Wesam Al-Naymat, Aiman Al-Qaitat
Plants and herbs have been used throughout the world as treatment agents. The Spirulina is a filamentous blue-green alga that is normally found in tropical and subtropical areas in warm alkaline water. Spirulina platensis (SP) is a cyanobacterium, which has a mounting attention for of its nutritional value and pharmacological properties. It is characterized by high nutritional value where it contains high protein content (60–70% by dry weight), plenty of vitamins, amino acids, gamma-linoleic acid, and minerals. Spirulina has protective effects against oxidative stress and this effect is associated to C-phycocyanin. Phycocyanin reduced ischemia-reperfusion of cardiac dysfunction by its antioxidant and anti-apoptotic activities. It also has neuroprotective effects. Limited studies have stated the therapeutic implications of Spirulina for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders.22–24 The intake of Spirulina as a diet supplement has health benefits in preventing or managing hypercholesterolemia, hyperglucagonemia, obesity, inflammation, cancer, antidiabetic effect and cardiovascular disease.18 These activities were mainly associated to phycocyanin, a dynamic protein of Spirulina. It has been reported that Phycocyanin has significant antioxidant and radical scavenging properties, offering protection against oxidative stress. Antioxidants can minimize arsenic toxicity via chelating it and scavenging free radicals. It was reported that Phycocyanin could bind with heavy metals; hence, it can chelate and remove them.25–27
An overview on cyanobacterial blooms and toxins production: their occurrence and influencing factors
Published in Toxin Reviews, 2022
Isaac Yaw Massey, Muwaffak Al osman, Fei Yang
The ancient cyanobacteria organisms, noticeable in rocks dating from the first thousand million years of the earth’s history and belong to the kingdom monera (Prokaryota), division eubacteria and class cyanobacteria (Ressom et al.1994, Omidi et al.2018), are a type of photosynthetic bacteria that live in water surface. As cyanobacteria colonies occur in shallow water, they appear in the fossil record in sedimentary rocks deposited in shallow seas and lakes. Cyanobacteria colonies identified as stromatolites emerge in rocks as fossilized mushroom shapes and sheets. Falconer (2005) reported that the Gunflint chert was one of the best stromatolite formations known in Lake Erie. It is of interest cyanobacteria was shown to possess a single circular chromosome completely sequenced in several species, plasmids and small circular strands of DNA (Schwabe 1988, Kaneko et al.1996). Whitton and Potts (2000) found that the chlorophyll-a and pigment phycocyanin observed in cyanobacteria photosynthetic membranes were responsible for the characteristic blue-green color of the many species. Pigments such as carotenoids and phycoerythrin which give a strong red color to some species may also be present (Bryant 1994).
C-Phycocyanin prevents acute myocardial infarction-induced oxidative stress, inflammation and cardiac damage
Published in Pharmaceutical Biology, 2022
Vanessa Blas-Valdivia, Daniela Nikita Moran-Dorantes, Placido Rojas-Franco, Margarita Franco-Colin, Neda Mirhosseini, Reza Davarnejad, Ahmad Halajisani, Omid Tavakoli, Edgar Cano-Europa
All data are presented as mean ± standard error of the mean. The cardiac enzyme evaluation (AST, ALT, CK and CKMB) was analysed by three-way repeated-measures analysis of variance (RM-three-way ANOVA) and the Tukey post hoc test. The factors were according to the AMI, treatment with C-phycocyanin, and time. The factors were analysed with two-way ANOVA and Tukey’s post hoc test. These factors were according to the AMI and treatment with C-phycocyanin.