Phytochemical and potential properties of seaweeds and their recent applications: A review

HS El-Beltagi, AA Mohamed, HI Mohamed… - Marine drugs, 2022 - mdpi.com
Since ancient times, seaweeds have been employed as source of highly bioactive
secondary metabolites that could act as key medicinal components. Furthermore, research …

Microalgae: therapeutic potentials and applications

F Khavari, M Saidijam, M Taheri, F Nouri - Molecular biology reports, 2021 - Springer
Recently, special attention has been paid to marine origin compounds such as
carbohydrates, peptides, lipids, and carotenoids, which are extracted from microalgae and …

Cyanobacteria—From the oceans to the potential biotechnological and biomedical applications

SAM Khalifa, ES Shedid, EM Saied, AR Jassbi… - Marine Drugs, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms which represent a significant
source of novel, bioactive, secondary metabolites, and they are also considered an …

Marine algae-derived bioactive compounds: a new wave of nanodrugs?

F Menaa, U Wijesinghe, G Thiripuranathar… - Marine drugs, 2021 - mdpi.com
Marine algae are rich in bioactive nutraceuticals (eg, carbohydrates, proteins, minerals, fatty
acids, antioxidants, and pigments). Biotic (eg, plants, microorganisms) and abiotic factors …

[HTML][HTML] From marine origin to therapeutics: The antitumor potential of marine algae-derived compounds

C Alves, J Silva, S Pinteus, H Gaspar… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Marine environment has demonstrated to be an interesting source of compounds with
uncommon and unique chemical features on which the molecular modeling and chemical …

Microalgae encapsulation systems for food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics applications

MV Vieira, LM Pastrana, P Fuciños - Marine drugs, 2020 - mdpi.com
Microalgae are microorganisms with a singular biochemical composition, including several
biologically active compounds with proven pharmacological activities, such as anticancer …

Customized materials-assisted microorganisms in tumor therapeutics

QW Chen, JY Qiao, XH Liu, C Zhang… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Microorganisms have been extensively applied as active biotherapeutic agents or drug
delivery vehicles for antitumor treatment because of their unparalleled bio-functionalities …

Algal magnetic nickel oxide nanocatalyst in accelerated synthesis of pyridopyrimidine derivatives

J Moavi, F Buazar, MH Sayahi - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
This research presents a novel biological route for the biosynthesis of nickel oxide
nanoparticles (NiO NPs) using marine macroalgae extract as a reducing and coating agent …

Marine cyanobacteria and microalgae metabolites—A rich source of potential anticancer drugs

A Mondal, S Bose, S Banerjee, JK Patra, J Malik… - Marine Drugs, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cancer is at present one of the utmost deadly diseases worldwide. Past efforts in cancer
research have focused on natural medicinal products. Over the past decades, a great deal of …

[HTML][HTML] Marine-derived drugs: Recent advances in cancer therapy and immune signaling

AFUH Saeed, J Su, S Ouyang - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2021 - Elsevier
The marine environment is an enormous source of marine-derived natural products (MNPs),
and future investigation into anticancer drug discovery. Current progress in anticancer drugs …