[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic effects of fucoidan: A review on recent studies

S Luthuli, S Wu, Y Cheng, X Zheng, M Wu, H Tong - Marine drugs, 2019 - mdpi.com
Fucoidan is a polysaccharide largely made up of l-fucose and sulfate groups. Fucoidan is
favorable worldwide, especially amongst the food and pharmaceutical industry as a …

[HTML][HTML] Marine fucoidans: Structural, extraction, biological activities and their applications in the food industry

EO Mensah, ON Kanwugu, PK Panda, P Adadi - Food Hydrocolloids, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the years, seaweeds have been highlighted as valuable natural sources of bioactive
polysaccharides. Fucoidan, a sulphated polysaccharide mainly from brown seaweeds …

[HTML][HTML] Brown algae carbohydrates: Structures, pharmaceutical properties, and research challenges

Y Li, Y Zheng, Y Zhang, Y Yang, P Wang, B Imre… - Marine drugs, 2021 - mdpi.com
Brown algae (Phaeophyceae) have been consumed by humans for hundreds of years.
Current studies have shown that brown algae are rich sources of bioactive compounds with …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of Bioactivities of Fucoidan from the Brown Seaweed Fucus vesiculosus L. of the Barents Sea

ON Pozharitskaya, ED Obluchinskaya, AN Shikov - Marine drugs, 2020 - mdpi.com
The aim of this study was to elucidate some mechanisms of radical scavenging and the anti-
inflammatory, anti-hyperglycemic, and anti-coagulant bioactivities of high molecular weight …

[HTML][HTML] Seaweed components as potential modulators of the gut microbiota

E Shannon, M Conlon, M Hayes - Marine Drugs, 2021 - mdpi.com
Macroalgae, or seaweeds, are a rich source of components which may exert beneficial
effects on the mammalian gut microbiota through the enhancement of bacterial diversity and …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive and comparative analysis of the fucoidan compositional data across the Phaeophyceae

NMA Ponce, CA Stortz - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In the current review, compositional data on fucoidans extracted from more than hundred
different species were surveyed through the available literature. The analysis of crude …

[HTML][HTML] Fucoidan from marine macroalgae: Biological actions and applications in regenerative medicine, drug delivery systems and food industry

GS Anisha, S Padmakumari, AK Patel, A Pandey… - Bioengineering, 2022 - mdpi.com
The marine macroalgae produce a collection of bioactive polysaccharides, of which the
sulfated heteropolysaccharide fucoidan produced by brown algae of the class …

[HTML][HTML] Metabolites with antioxidant activity from marine macroalgae

LA Tziveleka, MA Tammam, O Tzakou, V Roussis… - Antioxidants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) attack biological molecules, such as lipids, proteins,
enzymes, DNA, and RNA, causing cellular and tissue damage. Hence, the disturbance of …

[HTML][HTML] Enzyme-Assisted Fucoidan Extraction from Brown Macroalgae Fucus distichus subsp. evanescens and Saccharina latissima

TT Nguyen, MD Mikkelsen, VHN Tran, VTD Trang… - Marine drugs, 2020 - mdpi.com
Fucoidans from brown macroalgae (brown seaweeds) have different structures and many
interesting bioactivities. Fucoidans are classically extracted from brown seaweeds by hot …

A review on the hypoglycemic effect, mechanism and application development of natural dietary polysaccharides

YH Dong, ZX Wang, C Chen, PP Wang, X Fu - International journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Diabetes mellitus (DM) as one chronic metabolic disease was greatly increased over recent
decades. The major agents treating diabetes have noticeable side effects as well as the …