. 2020 Jul 18;9(7):955. doi: 10.3390/foods9070955

Table 1.

Enzyme inhibitory activity of acetylcholinesterase and HMGR of the ocean and Tagus samples aqueous extracts (100 °C, 30 min) and after SPE purified extract.

Extract	Acetylcholinesterase Inhibition		HMGR * Inhibition		Inhibition of Cholesterol Permeation (%)
Extract	1000 µg/mL	IC₅₀ (µg/mL)	10 µg/mL	IC₅₀ (µg/mL)	Inhibition of Cholesterol Permeation (%)
Ocean samples	89.96% ± 0.54 ^a	210.86 ± 22.11 ^a	27.74% ± 1.60 ^a	-	-
Ocean samples–SPE fraction	-	14.97 ± 0.13 ^b	86.41% ± 3.20 ^b	4.16 ± 0.11	45.3 ± 4.4
Tagus samples	4.199% ± 0.36 ^b	-	1.07% ± 0.65 ^c	-	-
Tagus samples–SPE fraction	60.44% ± 1.21^c	849.80 ± 10.24 ^c	52.95% ± 3.17 ^d	-	-

* 3-hidroxi-3-methyl-glutaril-CoA reductase; Superscript letters ^(a–d) correspond to values in the same column that can be considered statistically different (p = 0.05).