Current trends on seaweeds: Looking at chemical composition, phytopharmacology, and cosmetic applications

B Salehi, J Sharifi-Rad, AML Seca, DCGA Pinto… - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Seaweeds have received huge interest in recent years given their promising potentialities.
Their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antitumor, hypolipemic, and anticoagulant effects are …

[HTML][HTML] Seaweed nutraceuticals and their therapeutic role in disease prevention

AR Ganesan, U Tiwari, G Rajauria - Food Science and Human Wellness, 2019 - Elsevier
There is a growing interest that bioactive compounds from seaweed can play a major
therapeutic role in disease prevention in humans. Seaweed bioactives including …

A review on seaweeds and seaweed-derived polysaccharides: Nutrition, chemistry, bioactivities, and applications

C Xie, ZJ Lee, S Ye, CJ Barrow… - Food Reviews …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In recent studies, marine macroalgae (seaweeds) have been highlighted as excellent
sources of acquiring many bioactive polymers and metabolites with vast chemical and …

Recent advances in marine algae polysaccharides: Isolation, structure, and activities

SY Xu, X Huang, KL Cheong - Marine Drugs, 2017 - mdpi.com
Marine algae have attracted a great deal of interest as excellent sources of nutrients.
Polysaccharides are the main components in marine algae, hence a great deal of attention …

Nutraceutical potential of seaweed polysaccharides: Structure, bioactivity, safety, and toxicity

B Tanna, A Mishra - … Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, marine organisms including seaweeds have been highlighted as potential
sources of useful metabolites and bioactive compounds, with vast biological and …

Prospects and challenges for industrial production of seaweed bioactives

JT Hafting, JS Craigie, DB Stengel… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Large‐scale seaweed cultivation has been instrumental in globalizing the seaweed industry
since the 1950s. The domestication of seaweed cultivars (begun in the 1940s) ended the …

Nutrition in the prevention and treatment of endometriosis: A review

ND Barnard, DN Holtz, N Schmidt, S Kolipaka… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Endometriosis is characterized by the presence of endometrial tissues outside the uterine
lining, typically on the external surface of the uterus, the ovaries, fallopian tubes, abdominal …

Bioactive compounds from brown seaweeds: Phloroglucinol, fucoxanthin and fucoidan as promising therapeutic agents against breast cancer

D Pádua, E Rocha, D Gargiulo, AA Ramos - Phytochemistry Letters, 2015 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among women and its incidence tends to
increase year by year. Chemotherapy is an effective treatment for many types of cancer …

Fucoxanthin: A marine carotenoid exerting anti-cancer effects by affecting multiple mechanisms

SR Kumar, M Hosokawa, K Miyashita - Marine drugs, 2013 - mdpi.com
Fucoxanthin is a marine carotenoid exhibiting several health benefits. The anti-cancer effect
of fucoxanthin and its deacetylated metabolite, fucoxanthinol, is well documented. In view of …

Anticancer activity of seaweeds

AG Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, C Juarez-Portilla… - Drug Discovery …, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Anti-cancer activity of seaweeds has been probed in numerous studies.•Total
growth inhibition is a good parameter to evaluate seaweeds' activity.•We propose the …