Auxenochlorella pyrenoidosa
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Species: | Chlorella pyrenoidosa Chick, 1903
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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:
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
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.
Sources
- Merchant RE, Andre CA: "A review of recent clinical trials of the nutritional supplement Chlorella pyrenoidosa in the treatment of fibromyalgia, hypertension, and ulcerative colitis". Altern Ther Health Med 2001 May-Jun; 7(3):79-91 PMID 11347287
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- Boraas, M. E. 1983. Predator induced evolution in chemostat culture. EOS. Transactions of the American Geophysical Union. 64:1102.