{"id":3209,"date":"2022-03-02T07:08:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T07:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scientificasia.org\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2022-03-02T07:08:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T07:08:10","slug":"scientists-showed-that-spirulina-can-save-smokers-lungs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scientificasia.org\/index.php\/2022\/03\/02\/scientists-showed-that-spirulina-can-save-smokers-lungs\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists showed that Spirulina can save smoker\u2019s lungs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who doesn\u2019t know about the harms of nicotine to the body, and the list is ever-growing. Researchers around the globe are working hard to minimize the adverse effects of nicotine.\u00a0 Recently a group of scientists from Egypt <a href=\"https:\/\/scialert.net\/abstract\/?doi=pjn.2021.9.17\">studied<\/a> the protective effect of Spirulina platensis nanoparticles on nicotine-induced lung toxicity in mice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Scientists showed that Spirulina can save smoker\u2019s lungs\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-Hbsl1C5BSM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Selenium nanoparticles are well-known bioactive compounds. Spirulina platensis is a widely used blue-green microalga in various industries. Nanotechnology has been exploited as a great scientific area, especially in drug discovery, and the effects of substances on the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spirulina is classified as a \u201cSuperfood\u201d. It is truly amazing and full of nutritional wonders as it is rich in protein, carotenoids, omega 3 or omega 6, Gamma-linolenic acid, sulpholipids, glycolipids, potassium, zinc and selenium, vitamin A, vitamin E, and a variety of minerals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team through various tests and experiments found that selenium nanoparticles have powerful lung-protective activity against nicotine-induced lung toxicity as it normalizes the levels of agents causing oxidative stress. The researchers also observed a reduction in inflammation, which future increases the significance of their findings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This research work has recently been published in <em>the <a href=\"https:\/\/scialert.net\/abstract\/?doi=pjn.2021.9.17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pakistan Journal of Nutrition<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who doesn\u2019t know about the harms of nicotine to the body, and the list is ever-growing. Researchers around the globe are working hard to minimize the adverse effects of nicotine.\u00a0 Recently a group of scientists from Egypt studied the protective effect of Spirulina platensis nanoparticles on nicotine-induced lung toxicity in mice. Selenium nanoparticles are well-known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[964,963,959,602,962,958,961,960],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-cytokine-storm","tag-lung-toxicity","tag-lungs","tag-nanoparticles","tag-nicotine","tag-smoking","tag-sp-senps","tag-spirulina-platensis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scientificasia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scientificasia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scientificasia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scientificasia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scientificasia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scientificasia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3211,"href":"https:\/\/scientificasia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions\/3211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scientificasia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scientificasia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scientificasia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scientificasia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}