Talk:Dunaliella salina

Raw Translation from Japanese Wiki
Dunaliella salina ia a unicellular organism one kind of green algae (microalga). Once it was called シオヒゲムシ in Japanese. In a little long elliptic, it has two or four these isometric flagella in the point.

Growth environment
It propagates at the place where salinity density is high, the salt field, can see in salt lake and the like such as pink lake of the great salt lake and Australia of the dead sea and American ･ Utah state. In Japan is not something which is seen normally, but at portion of the Hiroshima bay, Gymnodynium and Peridinium (in each case the eddy Flagellata) and also it has been discovered as a member of the red tide which it occurs in summer.

Classification
With the unicellular seaweed, color is red, but with chlorophyll a and b, the carotenoid is included. Chlamidomonas and the like and also, it includes to the Chlorophyceae Volvox eyes, or it becomes independent viewing Dunaliella Salina.

Utilization
Because the β-carotenoid which begins the carotin is produced in large quantities, the water surface it dyes to pink color the orange applies, salt density the river edge of saturation concentrated state, white crystalline is formed in the bed. Dunaliella Salina is superior in the anti- oxidation action which helps the playback of the cell, is used anti such as cosmetics aging (prevention of aging) as the active ingredient. In addition, also the effect to which control of the cancer, prevention and anti- inflammation action etc. of ultraviolet ray obstacle are superior with the medical research of recent years, is observed.

--Liebeskind 11:52, 4 June 2006 (UTC)