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 …

Phlorotannins: A review on biosynthesis, chemistry and bioactivity

S Shrestha, W Zhang, SD Smid - Food Bioscience, 2021 - Elsevier
Phlorotannins are polyphenolic compounds mostly found in brown seaweed and are
comprised of polymeric chains of phloroglucinol residues (1, 3, 5-trihydroxybenzene) …

Phlorotannins–bioactivity and extraction perspectives

LRG Kumar, PT Paul, KK Anas, CS Tejpal… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Springer
Phlorotannins, a seaweed based class of polyphenolic compounds, have proven to possess
potential bioactivities such as antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-allergic, anti-diabetic, anti …

Algae polyphenolic compounds and modern antibacterial strategies: Current achievements and immediate prospects

NN Besednova, BG Andryukov, TS Zaporozhets… - Biomedicines, 2020 - mdpi.com
The increasing drug resistance of pathogenic microorganisms raises concern worldwide
and necessitates the search for new natural compounds with antibacterial properties. Marine …

Seaweed-derived phlorotannins: a review of multiple biological roles and action mechanisms

F Khan, GJ Jeong, MSA Khan, N Tabassum, YM Kim - Marine Drugs, 2022 - mdpi.com
Phlorotannins are a group of phenolic secondary metabolites isolated from a variety of
brown algal species belonging to the Fucaceae, Sargassaceae, and Alariaceae families …

Algal phlorotannins as novel antibacterial agents with reference to the antioxidant modulation: Current advances and future directions

B Pradhan, R Nayak, PP Bhuyan, S Patra, C Behera… - Marine Drugs, 2022 - mdpi.com
The increasing drug resistance of infectious microorganisms is considered a primary
concern of global health care. The screening and identification of natural compounds with …

The quest for phenolic compounds from seaweed: Nutrition, biological activities and applications

V Subbiah, C Xie, FR Dunshea, CJ Barrow… - Food Reviews …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Seaweeds are macroscopic marine algae that are allocated into three categories based on
the seaweed color (green, brown and red seaweeds). Seaweeds are known for its nutrition …

Gastrointestinal modifications and bioavailability of brown seaweed phlorotannins and effects on inflammatory markers

G Corona, Y Ji, P Anegboonlap, S Hotchkiss… - British Journal of …, 2016 - cambridge.org
Brown seaweeds such as Ascophyllum nodosum are a rich source of phlorotannins
(oligomers and polymers of phloroglucinol units), a class of polyphenols that are unique to …

The Structural Changes in the Membranes of Staphylococcus aureus Caused by Hydrolysable Tannins Witness Their Antibacterial Activity

E Olchowik-Grabarek, S Sękowski, A Kwiatek… - Membranes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Polyphenols, including tannins, are phytochemicals with pronounced antimicrobial
properties. We studied the activity of two hydrolysable tannins,(i) gallotannin—1, 2, 3, 4, 5 …

Microwave-Assisted Extraction of Phlorotannins from Fucus vesiculosus

SJ Amarante, MD Catarino, C Marçal, AMS Silva… - Marine drugs, 2020 - mdpi.com
Microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) was carried out to maximize the extraction of
phlorotannins from Fucus vesiculosus using a hydroethanolic mixture as a solvent, as an …