Abstract Cadmium (Cd) is known as a pollutant source in recent years with the increase industrialization. Algae have secondary metabolites high biological activity, used for pharmaceutical agents. The liver and kidney are primary organs involved elimination of systemic cadmium main targets toxicity. In previous research, it was determined ameliorative effects extract obtained from Ulva rigida t...

Introduction: Algae are widely popular as dietary supplement. Furthermore, they can be a great source of antioxidants (pigments, alkaloids, carotenoids, phenolic acids, sulfated polysaccharides and long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids etc.) used instead synthetic ones. The different nutrient compositions algae depend on class, species, habitats, maturity, environmental conditions. Aim: presen...

The possibility of using freshwater Ulva (Chlorophyta) as a bioaccumulator of metals (Co, Cr, Cu, Mn and Zn) in lake and river water was examined weekly in the summer of 2010 in three types of samples: the water, the sediment and the thalli of Ulva. Samples of freshwater Ulva were collected from two aqueous ecosystems lie 250 km away from the basin of the Baltic Sea and 53 km from each other. A...

Ulva rigida seaweed is constituted by ulvan, which a sulfated polysaccharide with uses in wide variety of applications. After the ulvan-oriented extraction process, crystalline and recalcitrant residue, so-called pulp, appears. In this work, residue was valorized through multiple-stage process. The total processing algae consists hot water extraction, acid hydrolysis, ABE fermentation, distilla...

The concentrations of Na, Mg, Al, S, Cl, K, Ca, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn, As, Se Br, Rb, Sr, Zr, Mo, Ag, Sb, I, Cs, Ba, La, Sm, Eu, Tb, Yb, Hf, Ta, W, Au, Th and U in 6 types of marine macrophytes (algae and seagrass): Gelidium pusillum (Stackhouse) Le Jolis, Ulva intestinalis Linnaeus, Amphiroa rigida J.V. Lamouroux, Hypnea sp., Cystoseira sp. and Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile (seagr...

The objective of this work was to evaluate the ability of the white rot basidiomycete Coriolopsis rigida to detoxify the water soluble fraction from "alpeorujo" (WSFA), a solid by-product produced by the olive oil extraction industry and characterized by a high concentration of phenols which limits its use as fertilizer and/or amendment. C. rigida reduced the phenol content in the liquid media ...