Food & Function issue 11 is now available online

31 Oct 2013

The researchers behind this month’s cover article investigate a possible health benefit of the Spirulina platensis alga

Issue 11 of Food & Function is now available to read online.

FO 11 OFC The front cover this month features work by Petr Nachtigal and co-workers from Prague, Czech Republic. In their work they investigate whether Spirulina Platensis, a water blue-green alga, can activate atheroprotective heme oxygenase-1 (Mnox1) – a mechanism which would suggest the benefit of S. platensis as a food supplement in the reduction of atherosclerotic disease.

Read the article in full – it’s free to access for the next six weeks:
Spirulina platensis and phycocyanobilin activate atheroprotective heme oxygenase-1: a possible implication for atherogenesis
Zbynek Strasky, Lenka Zemankova, Ivana Nemeckova, Jana Rathouska, Ronald J. Wong, Lucie Muchova, Iva Subhanova, Jana Vanikova, Katerina Vanova, Libor Vitek and Petr Nachtigal
Food Funct., 2013, 4, 1586-1594, DOI: 10.1039/C3FO60230C

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