Chlorella pyrenoidosa

Chlorella pyrenoidosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Chlorophyta
Class:	Trebouxiophyceae
Order:	Chlorellales
Family:	Chlorellaceae
Genus:	Chlorella
Species:	Chlorella pyrenoidosa Chick, 1903

Chlorella pyrenoidosa is a species of fresh water green algae. It has been used medicinally as a chelatory agent, for example to extract mercury from the body. However there is no scientific proof of this.

Possible medicinal uses include:

• fibromyalgia
• hypertension
• ulcerative colitis

It occurs world wide. The species name pyrenoidosa refers to the presence of a prominent pyrenoid within the Chlorella chloroplast. This species has been used in traditional Chinese medicine.

See also

• Chlorella

Boraas (1983) reported a mutation in a population of Chlorella pyrenoidosa kept in his lab as a food stock for a population of flagellates. Due to a malfunction of his equipment some of the flagellates got in the Chlorella's tank. this caused a mutation from unicellular to Multicellular.

References

• Merchant, R. E.; Andre, C. A. (2001). "A review of recent clinical trials of the nutritional supplement Chlorella pyrenoidosa in the treatment of fibromyalgia, hypertension, and ulcerative colitis". Alternative therapies in health and medicine 7 (3): 79–91. PMID 11347287. 
• chlorella
• Boraas, M. E. 1983. Predator induced evolution in chemostat culture. EOS. Transactions of the American Geophysical Union. 64:1102.