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Antioxidant Compounds from Microalgae: A Review
- Source :
- Marine Drugs, Vol 19, Iss 549, p 549 (2021), Marine Drugs (1660-3397) (MDPI AG), 2021-10, Vol. 19, N. 10, P. 549 (30p.), Marine Drugs
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2021.
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Abstract
- The demand for natural products isolated from microalgae has increased over the last decade and has drawn the attention from the food, cosmetic and nutraceutical industries. Among these natural products, the demand for natural antioxidants as an alternative to synthetic antioxidants has increased. In addition, microalgae combine several advantages for the development of biotechnological applications: high biodiversity, photosynthetic yield, growth, productivity and a metabolic plasticity that can be orientated using culture conditions. Regarding the wide diversity of antioxidant compounds and mode of action combined with the diversity of reactive oxygen species (ROS), this review covers a brief presentation of antioxidant molecules with their role and mode of action, to summarize and evaluate common and recent assays used to assess antioxidant activity of microalgae. The aim is to improve our ability to choose the right assay to assess microalgae antioxidant activity regarding the antioxidant molecules studied.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Aquatic Organisms
Antioxidant
QH301-705.5
medicine.medical_treatment
Pharmaceutical Science
Review
phenolic compounds
Biology
01 natural sciences
Antioxidants
Structure-Activity Relationship
03 medical and health sciences
Nutraceutical
Drug Discovery
Microalgae
medicine
Animals
glutathione
Biology (General)
Mode of action
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (miscellaneous)
Carotenoid
030304 developmental biology
reactive oxygen species
chemistry.chemical_classification
0303 health sciences
business.industry
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
carotenoids
Ascorbic acid
Biotechnology
chemistry
ascorbic acid
business
tocopherols
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16603397
- Volume :
- 19
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Marine Drugs
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d15729765958b96bf5ea6295b737efe4