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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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Molecules, 2023 Brown macroalgae are a rich source of fucoidans with many pharmacological uses. This research aimed to isolate and characterize fucoidan from Dictyota dichotoma var. dichotoma (Hudson) J.V.
Mostafa M. El-Sheekh +4 more
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Marine Drugs, 2019 The marine acid polysaccharide fucoidan has attracted attention from both the food and pharmaceutical industries due to its promising therapeutic effects. Fucoidan is a polysaccharide that mainly consists of L-fucose and sulphate groups.
Yu Wang, Aiguo Ji, Maochen Xing
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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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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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Intestinal Absorption of Fucoidan Extracted from the Brown Seaweed, Cladosiphon okamuranus
Marine Drugs, 2014 The aim of this study was to examine the absorption of fucoidan through the intestinal tract. Fucoidan (0.1, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 mg/mL) was added to Transwell inserts containing Caco-2 cells. The transport of fucoidan across Caco-2 cells increased in a
Takeaki Nagamine +4 more
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