Promising bioactive compounds from the marine environment and their potential effects on various diseases

A Karthikeyan, A Joseph, BG Nair - Journal of Genetic Engineering and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background The marine environment hosts a wide variety of species that have evolved to
live in harsh and challenging conditions. Marine organisms are the focus of interest due to …

Marine collagen from alternative and sustainable sources: Extraction, processing and applications

D Coppola, M Oliviero, GA Vitale, C Lauritano… - Marine drugs, 2020 - mdpi.com
Due to its unique properties, collagen is used in the growing fields of pharmaceutical and
biomedical devices, as well as in the fields of nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals, food and …

Marine microalgae with anti-cancer properties

KA Martínez Andrade, C Lauritano, G Romano… - Marine drugs, 2018 - mdpi.com
Cancer is the leading cause of death globally and finding new therapeutic agents for cancer
treatment remains a major challenge in the pursuit for a cure. This paper presents an …

Bioactivity screening of microalgae for antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anticancer, anti-diabetes, and antibacterial activities

C Lauritano, JH Andersen, E Hansen… - Frontiers in marine …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Marine microalgae are considered a potentially new and valuable source of biologically
active molecules for applications in the food industry as well as in the pharmaceutical …

Marine bacterial secondary metabolites: A treasure house for structurally unique and effective antimicrobial compounds

R Srinivasan, A Kannappan, C Shi, X Lin - Marine Drugs, 2021 - mdpi.com
The prevalence of antimicrobial resistance reduces the effectiveness of antimicrobial drugs
in preventing and treating infectious diseases caused by pathogenic organisms, such as …

An online resource for marine fungi

EBG Jones, KL Pang, MA Abdel-Wahab, B Scholz… - Fungal Diversity, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Index Fungorum, Species Fungorum and MycoBank are the key fungal
nomenclature and taxonomic databases that can be sourced to find taxonomic details …

[HTML][HTML] Insights about clinically approved and Preclinically investigated marine natural products

MA Ghareeb, MA Tammam, A El-Demerdash… - Current Research in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Since the early research efforts focusing on bioactive marine substances such as
spongouridine, from the marine sponge Cryptotethya crypta, marine natural products …

Extracellular metabolites from industrial microalgae and their biotechnological potential

L Liu, G Pohnert, D Wei - Marine drugs, 2016 - mdpi.com
Industrial microalgae, as a big family of promising producers of renewable biomass
feedstock, have been commercially exploited for functional food, living feed and feed …

Marine microorganisms as a promising and sustainable source of bioactive molecules

G Romano, M Costantini, C Sansone… - Marine environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
There is an urgent need to discover new drug entities due to the increased incidence of
severe diseases as cancer and neurodegenerative pathologies, and reducing efficacy of …

Biomaterials and bioactive natural products from marine invertebrates: From basic research to innovative applications

G Romano, M Almeida, A Varela Coelho, A Cutignano… - Marine Drugs, 2022 - mdpi.com
Aquatic invertebrates are a major source of biomaterials and bioactive natural products that
can find applications as pharmaceutics, nutraceutics, cosmetics, antibiotics, antifouling …