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ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 28, Issue -, Pages 1-6Publisher
UNIV CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejbt.2017.04.001
Keywords
Biologically active polysaccharides; Catalase; Cholesterol; Electroosmosis; Electron spin resonance; Glucose; Mannose; Seafood; Superoxide dismutase; Triglycerides; Waste
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- National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) [2014AA093602]
- Public science and technology research funds projects of ocean [201505030-5]
- Program for Liaoning Excellent Talents in University (LNET) [LR2015004]
- Program for Dalian High-level Innovation Talents [2016RQ063]
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Background: Sea cucumber is a seafood of high nutritional value. During its processing, sea cucumber processing liquor is routinely produced, which is usually discarded as waste. The chemical composition of this processing liquor is similar to sea cucumbers themselves. Hence, valuable ingredients, such as functional polysaccharides, could be obtained from them. Results: Biologically active polysaccharides from sea cucumber processing liquor were extracted through protease hydrolysis and electroosmosis. The analysis revealed that the polysaccharide extract from sea cucumber processing liquor (PESCPL) is predominantly composed of mannose, in addition to some glucose and fucose. The antioxidant activity of PESCPL was analyzed using in vitro. It was demonstrated that PESCPL could effectively scavenge 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl radicals, hydroxyl radicals, and superoxide anion radicals. The effect of PESCPL was investigated in vivo by using mice model fed with high-fat diets with/without PESCPL supplement. It was shown that PESCPL could increase the catalase and superoxide dismutase activity in the serum and decrease serum malonaldehyde content. Furthermore, mice fed with PESCPL diet showed a considerable decrease in the serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels and an increase in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels. Conclusions: Our research highlights that PESCPL is a natural antioxidant and could be utilized as a therapeutic supplement for dyslipidemia. (C) 2017 Pontificia Universidad Catlica de Valparaiso. Production and hosting by Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license
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