BACKGROUND: The review presents the 2005–2006 peer-reviewed marine pharmacology
literature, and follows a similar format to the authors' 1998–2004 reviews. The preclinical …

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), which chiefly originatesfroma retrovirus
named Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), has impacted about 70 million people …

Zika virus (ZIKV) is an arbovirus belonging to the flavivirus genus and is transmitted in
Aedes mosquito vectors. Since its discovery in humans in 1952 in Uganda, ZIKV has been …

Historically, algae have stimulated significant economic interest particularly as a source of
fertilizers, feeds, foods and pharmaceutical precursors. However, there is increasing interest …

Covering: 2004 to April 2010 This review covers the recent advances in anti-HIV natural
products of various origins and chemical classes. The literature of the last seven years has …

The high number of citations of the previous review on anti-HIV compounds from plants
published in 1998 in Planta Medica indicates the importance of natural products research in …

Abstract The genus Dictyota (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae) comprises parenchymatous algae
occurring predominantly in tropical to warm-temperate waters and has gathered attention …

With increasing consumer awareness of the use of natural products in pharmaceuticals and
medicine, it is noted that algae can be considered an appropriate source. Algae produce …

We describe in this paper that the diterpenes 8, 10, 18-trihydroxy-2, 6-dolabelladiene (1)
and (6R)-6-hydroxydichotoma-4, 14-diene-1, 17-dial (2), isolated from the marine algae …

Enzyme inhibitors are now included in all kinds of drugs essential to treat most of the human
diseases including communicable, metabolic, cardiovascular, neurological diseases and …