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ArticleMarine drugs2015

The Bright Side of Gelatinous Blooms: Nutraceutical Value and Antioxidant Properties of Three Mediterranean Jellyfish (Scyphozoa).

Antonella Leone, Raffaella Marina Lecci, Miriana Durante, Federica Meli, Stefano Piraino

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Article in Marine drugs, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 122 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Antonella LeoneInstitute of Sciences of Food Production, National Research Council, Unit of Lecce (CNR, ISPA), Via Prov.le Lecce-Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy. antonella.leone@ispa.cnr.it.
Raffaella Marina LecciInstitute of Sciences of Food Production, National Research Council, Unit of Lecce (CNR, ISPA), Via Prov.le Lecce-Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy. stefano.piraino@unisalento.it.
Miriana DuranteInstitute of Sciences of Food Production, National Research Council, Unit of Lecce (CNR, ISPA), Via Prov.le Lecce-Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy. miriana.durante@ispa.cnr.it.
Federica MeliDipartimento di Scienze degli Alimenti, Università di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze, 59/A, 43124 Parma, Italy. federica.meli@campus-italy.com.
Stefano PirainoConsorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare (CoNISMa), Local Unit of Lecce, Via Prov.le Lecce-Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy. stefano.piraino@unisalento.it.
CoNISMa · ITInstitute of Sciences of Food Production · ITUniversity of Parma · ITUniversity of Salento · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Jellyfish are recorded with increasing frequency and magnitude in many coastal areas and several species display biological features comparable to the most popular Asiatic edible jellyfish. The biochemical and antioxidant properties of wild gelatinous biomasses, in terms of nutritional and nutraceutical values, are still largely unexplored. In this paper, three of the most abundant and commonly recorded jellyfish species (Aurelia sp.1, Cotylorhiza tuberculata and Rhizostoma pulmo) in the Mediterranean Sea were subject to investigation. A sequential enzymatic hydrolysis of jellyfish proteins was set up by pepsin and collagenase treatments of jellyfish samples after aqueous or hydroalcoholic protein extraction. The content and composition of proteins, amino acids, phenolics, and fatty acids of the three species were recorded and compared. Protein content (mainly represented by collagen) up to 40% of jellyfish dry weight were found in two of the three jellyfish species (C. tuberculata and R. pulmo), whereas the presence of ω-3 and ω-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) was significantly higher in the zooxanthellate jellyfish C. tuberculata only. Remarkable antioxidant ability was also recorded from both proteinaceous and non proteinaceous extracts and the hydrolyzed protein fractions in all the three species. The abundance of collagen, peptides and other bioactive molecules make these Mediterranean gelatinous biomasses a largely untapped source of natural compounds of nutraceutical, cosmeceutical and pharmacological interest.

Indexed as

Amino AcidsAnimalsAntioxidantsBiological ProductsBiomassCollagenDietary SupplementsEcosystemFatty Acids, UnsaturatedGelatinHydrolysisMediterranean SeaScyphozoaAmino AcidsAntioxidantsBiological ProductsCollagenFatty Acids, UnsaturatedGelatinantioxidantscollagenmacrozooplanktonmarine jellyfishnovel foodsnutraceuticals

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PMID26230703
PMCPMC4556998
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