Chlorella diet

Fed Chlorella containing 500 mg PCB 169/kg for 50 days, then clean Chlorella diet for 45 days... 

Figure 1 Effects of Chlorella diet on fecal excretion amounts of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin (PCDD) and polychlorinated dibenzofuran (PCDF) congeners in contaminated rice oil-fed rats. Values are means SD, n=4. Vhlues of acceleration index of fecal excretion amounts of PCDD and PCDF congeners due to Chlorella diet were calculated using the following equation Acceleration index of fecal excretion amounts of PCDD...

GABA-rich Chlorella diet compared with those fed the basal diet (data not shown). 

Figure 18 Anti-hypercholesterolemic effect of DIIA-rich Chlorella in rats fed high cholesterol diet. DHA contents of DHA-rich Chlorella, DHA oil, and Chlorella diet are 0.8 %. 0.8 %, and 0 %, respectively. Values are mcnas SD. Significantly different from the basal group (P<005) S Significantly different from the DHA-rich Chlorella group (P<0.05).

Figure 16 Effect of GABA-rich Chlorella on blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). The values are expressed as means SD (n=6). Experimental diets containing 10 % GABA-rich Chlorella was given to SHR for 15 weeks and the measurement of blood pressure was executed using the tail-cuff method in all instances.

Figure 19 Effect of DHA-rich Chlorella oil-diet on eight-arm radial maze performance of aged mice. Each column and vertical bar represents the means SE of 20 trials (5-7 mice).

Arthrospira, Chlorella, and D. salina were used in human nutrition diets because of their high protein content and their excellent nutritive value. In addition, this microalga has various possible health-promoting effects the alleviation of hyperlipidemia, suppression of hypertension, protection against renal failure, growth promotion of intestinal Lactobacillus, and suppression of elevated serum glucose level. A significant amount of... 

Most of the inorganic sulfate assimilated and reduced by plants appears ultimately in cysteine and methionine. These amino acids contain about 90% of the total sulfur in most plants (Allaway and Thompson, 1966). Nearly all of the cysteine and methionine is in protein. The typical dominance of protein cysteine and protein methionine in the total organic sulfur is illustrated in Table I by analyses of the sulfur components of a lower plant (Chlorella) and a higher plant (Lemna). Thede novo synthesis of cysteine and methionine is one of the key reactions in biology, comparable in importance to the reduction of carbon in photosynthesis (Allaway, 1970). This is so because all nonruminant animals studied require a dietary source of methionine or its precursor, homocysteine. Animals metabolize methionine via cysteine to inorganic sulfate. Plants complete the cycle of sulfur by reduction of inorganic sulfate back to cysteine and methionine, and are thus the ultimate source of the methionine in most animal diets (Siegel, 1975). 

Although bacteria present in rotifer cultures can provide vitamin B (Yu et al, 1989) and microalgae such as Chlorella sp. and I. galbana provide vitamin C (Merchie et al, 1995), extra enrichment of thiamine (as thiamine HCl) and vitamin E (as DL-alpha-tocopherol) led to an increased concentration in the rotifers after four days. On the other hand, addition of vitamin A (as retinyl palmitate) in the diet did not lead to a significant increase in vitamin A content (Srivastava et al, 2011). As copepods and their naupUi are the natural food for many marine larvae, rotifers are also enriched in iodine in order to obtain iodine levels similar to those of copepods (Srivastava et al, 2006). 

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