Bioactive compounds with diverse chemical structures play a significant role in disease
prevention and maintenance of physiological functions. Due to the increase in industrial …

There is a current tendency towards bioactive natural products with applications in various
industries, such as pharmaceutical, biomedical, cosmetics and food. This has put some …

In this work we report the preparation of fucan-coated magnetite (Fe3O4) nanoparticles by
the co-precipitation method. These nanoparticles were characterized by scanning electron …

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 …

Conventionally, fucoidan from brown macroalgae is extracted by solubilizing cell wall
polysaccharides in hot water, acidic/alkali, and organic solvents. This study depicts the use …

This study aimed to characterize and quantify the phenolics, hydrocolloids, lipids and
carotenoids and to study antioxidant and antidiabetic property of phenolics of marine brown …

Currently, biologically active natural products become more and more popular among
consumers, both in the form of food supplements and cosmetic products, and as medicines …

Fucan is a term used to denominate a type of polysaccharide which contains substantial
percentages of l-fucose and sulfate ester groups. We obtained five heterofucans from …

Only a mere fraction of the huge variety of human pathogenic viruses can be targeted by the
currently available spectrum of antiviral drugs. The severe acute respiratory syndrome …

The sulfated and acetylated fucoidan fraction, containing fucose, galactose, mannose,
glucose and uronic acid residues, was isolated from the brown alga Padina boryana. The …