Study Of Hypolipemiant Activity Of Some Mussel Extracts

The aim of this work is to study the hypolipemiant activity of some biological active extracts from mussels on rats treated with TRITON WR 1339 for to induce the hyperlipidaemia. For the experiment it used five groups of 10 rats. For 14 days one group get suspension of mussel meat 10%, another group get total lipid extract from mussel and a group get simvastatin. Were determined following biochemical parameters on blood serum: cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol, triglycerides and total blood lipids. Because of their complex composition (especially due to polyunsaturated fatty acids) specifically marine lipids, the total lipid extract from mussel present an important hypolipemiant activity as we can see from the experimental data obtained.