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Artemia
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Artemia
shrimp grown and used extensively as a food source for ornamental and food fish culture. Called also brine shrimp.


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BRINE SHRIMP DIRECT In a state landlocked by desert, the freshest seafood can be three days in a freezer truck.
In Utah, scientists found high levels of mercury in brine shrimp, and the ducks that feed on them, in the Great Salt Lake.
Screening of the extract for biological activity started with the brine shrimp lethality bioassay, followed by the study of its antihypertensive activity on anaesthetized rats, which involved monitoring of the extract's effect on mean arterial blood pressure.
 
 
 
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