Meretrix Meretrix: Active Components and Their Bioactivities
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The clam Meretrix meretrix Linnaeus (M. meretrix, Veneridae), is a popular edible shellfish with abundant nutrition and valuable medical properties widely distributed in eastern Asia. As a kind of popular sea food diet, many bioactive components such as peptides, proteins, enzymes, polysaccharide, minerals, essential vitamins, essential amino acids and enzyme inhibitors, have been purified from M. meretrix, which are considered to be responsible for its nutritional and medicinal functions including anticancer, antioxidant, antihyperglycemia, antihperlipemia, reduce swelling and detoxification effects. This article reviewed the nutritional constituents, bioactive compounds and pharmacological effects of M. meretrix to provide further support and evidence for its medicinal and nutritional use. [Xie W, Chen C, Liu X, Wang B, Sun Y, Yan M, Zhang X. Meretrix Meretrix: Active Components and Their Bioactivities. Life Sci J 2012; 9(3):756-762] (ISSN:1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 107
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