Ramachandran Srinivasan

TL;DR: Under nutrient deficit conditions, addition of sodium bicarbonate significantly increased the biomass, carotenoids including β-carotene and lutein, lipid, and fatty acid content with concurrent enhancement of the activities of nutrient assimilatory and carbonic anhydrase enzymes.

TL;DR: The results indicate that the optimum concentration of bicarbonate was required to stimulate a positive effect on β-carotene production as well as the lipid profile in Dunaliella sp.

TL;DR: Both the RNAi and antisense lines showed a significant decrease in the expression levels of phytoene desaturase and carotenoid content compared to wild type cells.

TL;DR: Chrysin has the potential to delay rather than inhibit tumor formation as evidenced by the tumor formation in two of the DMBA + chrysin-treated hamsters, during DMBA-induced hamster buccal pouch carcinogenesis.

TL;DR: Characterization of the abundant yellow pigment in methanol extracts of S. faeni ISY through UV-Vis spectrophotometry, high performance liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry revealed the presence of astaxanthin, which, owing to its presence in very large amounts, is evidenced to be responsible for antagonistic activity of the solvent extract.