Current and prospective insights on food and pharmaceutical applications of spirulina

Current Trends in Biotechnology and Pharmacy

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 681-695

  Patel, Seema ^a   Goyal, Arun ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

Author keywords

Anticancer; Antioxidant; Antodiabetic; Immunomodulation; Neuroprotection; Spirulina

Indexed keywords

ANTIANEMIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; ANTIMUTAGENIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; C PHYCOCYANIN; DOXORUBICIN; IMMUNOSTIMULATING AGENT; LIVER PROTECTIVE AGENT; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; PHYCOCYANIN; PREBIOTIC AGENT; ROSIGLITAZONE; SPIRULINA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID;

ALGAL CELL CULTURE; ANEMIA; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; AQUACULTURE; ARTHRITIS; CARDIOTOXICITY; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CORNEA OPACITY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG PURIFICATION; DRUG USE; EXENCEPHALY; FOOD; HEART PROTECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; LEUKEMIA; LIVER PROTECTION; LIVESTOCK; LUNG FIBROSIS; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROGNATHIA; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OSTEOPOROSIS; REVIEW; SKELETON MALFORMATION; SPIRULINA; TERATOGENICITY; TESTIS DISEASE; THROMBOSIS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84877669987     PISSN: 09738916     EISSN: 22307303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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