Antioxidant and hypolipidaemic properties of red seaweed, Gracilaria changii

• Main Authors: Chan, Pei Teng, Patricia @ Patricia Clementina Matanjun, Suhaimi Md. Yasir, Djuli Acun Darmawan @ Tan Tek Song
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Springer Netherlands 2013
• Subjects: QK1-989 Botany; TX341-641 Nutrition. Foods and food supply
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34131/1/Antioxidant%20and%20hypolipidaemic%20properties%20of%20red%20seaweed%2C%20Gracilaria%20changii.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34131/3/Antioxidant%20and%20hypolipidaemic%20properties%20of%20red%20seaweed%2C%20Gracilaria%20changii%20_ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34131/; https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10811-013-0135-z.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10811-013-0135-z

The edible red seaweed, Gracilaria changii, was collected from the coastal area of Sarawak, Malaysia, and evaluated for its hypolipidaemic properties using high cholesterol/high fat (HF) induced male Sprague–Dawley rats. In the in vivo study, the HF diet group showed significantly higher total chole...