Marine Functional Food Products - Cardiovascular Diseases 2021
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2021) | Viewed by 15413
Special Issue Editor
Interests: animal food quality and technology; functional marine food; fish lipids
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Dear Colleagues,
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the most crucial non-communicable diseases being responsible for almost 30% of total deaths globally. Over the past decades fish consumption has been related to beneficial effects against CVDs, mainly attributed to omega-three polyunsaturated fatty acids. Additionally other marine lipid sources, such as krill oil (the most abundant biomass on earth due to its reproductive capabilities), have been found to exert anti-inflammatory activity and thus anti-atherosclerotic activity; inflammation is closely linked to the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. Furthermore, it has been reported that the cardio-protective properties of marine lipids can be attributed to biologically active lipid micro-constituents that exert anti-thrombotic action. Moreover, fish nutrients also contain proteins, amino acids and peptides that mainly contribute to lipid metabolism regulation, along with vitamin D, selenium and taurine that exert beneficial effects on cardiovascular risk factors.
This Special Issue covers all new trends in formulating marine functional food products with reinforced cardio-protective properties.
Dr. Constantina NasopoulouGuest Editor
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Keywords
- marine functional food products
- cardiovascular diseases
- ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids
- biologically active fish lipid micro-constituents
- fish proteins
- vitamin D
- selenium
- taurine
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