Cytotoxic Effects of Fucoidan Nanoparticles against Osteosarcoma
Marine Drugs, 2013 In this study, we analyzed the size-dependent bioactivities of fucoidan by comparing the cytotoxic effects of native fucoidan and fucoidan lipid nanoparticles on osteosarcoma in vitro and in vivo. In vitro experiments indicated that nanoparticle fucoidan
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Fucoidan Extracted from Undaria pinnatifida: Source for Nutraceuticals/Functional Foods
Marine Drugs, 2018 The importance of fucoidan as a functional ingredient in food, health products, and pharmaceutics is well-recognized due to its beneficial biological effects. Fucoidan is usually extracted from brown seaweeds, including Undaria pinnatifida.
Shiping Yang, William White, Jun Lu
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Fucoidan Extracted from Fucus vesiculosus Ameliorates Colitis-Associated Neuroinflammation and Anxiety-like Behavior in Adult C57BL/6 Mice [PDF]
Marine DrugsFucoidan, a complex sulfated polysaccharide derived from marine brown seaweeds, exhibits broad biological activities, including anticoagulant, antitumor, antiviral, anti-inflammatory and lipid-lowering effects.
Xiaoyu Song +14 more
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Fucoidan Is Not Completely Dependent on Degradation to Fucose to Relieve Ulcerative Colitis
Pharmaceuticals, 2022 Recently, fucoidan has been proposed for use as a potential anti-inflammatory drug. The purpose of this study was to investigate the mechanism of fucoidan in the treatment of ulcerative colitis.
Qiang Wei +8 more
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In vitro anticancer potential of laminarin and fucoidan from Brown seaweeds
Scientific Reports, 2023 Marine seaweeds are rich source of polysaccharides present in their cell wall and are cultivated and consumed in China, Japan, Korea, and South Asian countries. Brown seaweeds (Phaeophyta) are rich source of polysaccharides such as Laminarin and Fucoidan.
Elumalai Sanniyasi +6 more
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Modulation of T Cell Responses by Fucoidan to Inhibit Osteogenesis
Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 Fucoidan has sparked considerable interest in biomedical applications because of its inherent (bio)physicochemical characteristics, particularly immunomodulatory effects on macrophages, neutrophils, and natural killer cells.
Hailin Huang +16 more
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Fucoidan Regulates Starch Digestion: In Vitro and Mechanistic Study
Foods, 2022 Bread is a high glycemic index (GI) food with high amounts of readily digestible carbohydrates. Fucoidan refers to a group of sulfated polysaccharides isolated from brown seaweed that has been gaining traction for its many functional properties ...
Hui Si Audrey Koh +3 more
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Study on Absorption Mechanism and Tissue Distribution of Fucoidan
Molecules, 2020 Fucoidan exhibits several pharmacological activities and is characterized by high safety and the absence of toxic side effects. However, the absorption of fucoidan is not well-characterized.
Xu Bai +5 more
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Foods, 2022 Fucoidan is one of the main polysaccharides of brown algae and echinoderm, which has nutritional and pharmacological functions. Due to the low molecular weight and exposure of more sulfate groups, oligo-fucoidan or fucoidan oligosaccharides have ...
Yanjun Qiu +6 more
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Fucoidan Inhibition of Osteosarcoma Cells is Species and Molecular Weight Dependent
Marine Drugs, 2020 Fucoidan is a brown algae-derived polysaccharide having several biomedical applications. This study simultaneously compares the anti-cancer activities of crude fucoidans from Fucus vesiculosus and Sargassum filipendula, and effects of low (LMW, 10− ...
Dhanak Gupta +8 more
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