summarizes some of the common anti-inflammatory compounds biosynthesized by
microalgae.
3.4 As Antioxidant Agents
Presently, the global interest is growing towards discovering novel, safe, potent, and
robust antioxidants from microalgae to reduce the oxidative vandalism on the living
cells and the commercialized products like pharmaceuticals, food, and
nutraceuticals. Antioxidants extracted from microalgae are not that non-toxic as
compared the synthetic antioxidants whose carcinogenic effect has already been
reported [93]. Table 6 lists some of the common antioxidants synthesized by
microalgae.
4 Future Prospects
Currently, the use of microalgae for the extraction of bioactive compounds is
encouraged due to healthy food and health care and to maintain a clean environment,
but still there are concerns that can be looked into in the coming future for efficient
production and application of bioactive compounds. Firstly, large-scale industries
Table 5 Anti-inflammatory properties of compounds extracted from microalgae
Compound/extract
Chemistry
Source
Reference
Fucoxanthin
Carotenoids
Diatoms
Peng et al.
[87]
Digalactosyldiacylglycerols
Nannochloropsis granulata
Blunt
et al. [88]
β-Carotene
Carotenoid
Dunaliella salina
Ramos
et al. [89]
Violaxanthin
Carotenoid
Dunaliella tertiolecta
Pasquet
et al. [90]
Zeaxanthin
Carotenoid
Chlorella
saccharophila
Singh
et al. [91]
Eicosapentaenoic acid
(EPA)
Fatty acid
Tetraselmis sp.
Mobraten
et al. [92]
Sulfated extracellular
Polysaccharide
Polysaccharide Phaeodactylum
tricornutum
Guzman
et al. [73]
Phycobiliproteins
Proteins
Spirulina platensis
Porphyridium sp.
Romay
et al. [79]
Acetone extract
–
C. closterium FE2/1,
O. mobiliensis FE326/1, and
P. pseudodelicatissima FE1098_1/
1
Lauritano
et al. [58]
170
S. Sinha et al.
microalgae.
3.4 As Antioxidant Agents
Presently, the global interest is growing towards discovering novel, safe, potent, and
robust antioxidants from microalgae to reduce the oxidative vandalism on the living
cells and the commercialized products like pharmaceuticals, food, and
nutraceuticals. Antioxidants extracted from microalgae are not that non-toxic as
compared the synthetic antioxidants whose carcinogenic effect has already been
reported [93]. Table 6 lists some of the common antioxidants synthesized by
microalgae.
4 Future Prospects
Currently, the use of microalgae for the extraction of bioactive compounds is
encouraged due to healthy food and health care and to maintain a clean environment,
but still there are concerns that can be looked into in the coming future for efficient
production and application of bioactive compounds. Firstly, large-scale industries
Table 5 Anti-inflammatory properties of compounds extracted from microalgae
Compound/extract
Chemistry
Source
Reference
Fucoxanthin
Carotenoids
Diatoms
Peng et al.
[87]
Digalactosyldiacylglycerols
Nannochloropsis granulata
Blunt
et al. [88]
β-Carotene
Carotenoid
Dunaliella salina
Ramos
et al. [89]
Violaxanthin
Carotenoid
Dunaliella tertiolecta
Pasquet
et al. [90]
Zeaxanthin
Carotenoid
Chlorella
saccharophila
Singh
et al. [91]
Eicosapentaenoic acid
(EPA)
Fatty acid
Tetraselmis sp.
Mobraten
et al. [92]
Sulfated extracellular
Polysaccharide
Polysaccharide Phaeodactylum
tricornutum
Guzman
et al. [73]
Phycobiliproteins
Proteins
Spirulina platensis
Porphyridium sp.
Romay
et al. [79]
Acetone extract
–
C. closterium FE2/1,
O. mobiliensis FE326/1, and
P. pseudodelicatissima FE1098_1/
1
Lauritano
et al. [58]
170
S. Sinha et al.