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Fucoidans and Bowel Health [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2021 Fucoidans are cell wall polysaccharides found in various species of brown seaweeds. They are fucose-containing sulfated polysaccharides (FCSPs) and comprise 5–20% of the algal dry weight.
Jin-Young Yang, Sun Young Lim
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Fucoidans in Nanomedicine [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2016 Fucoidans are widespread cost-effective sulfated marine polysaccharides which have raised interest in the scientific community over last decades for their wide spectrum of bioactivities. Unsurprisingly, nanomedicine has grasped these compounds to develop
Lucas Chollet +5 more
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In Vitro Anti-Orthohantavirus Activity of the High-and Low-Molecular-Weight Fractions of Fucoidan from the Brown Alga Fucus evanescens [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2021 The Hantaan orthohantavirus (genovariant Amur–AMRV) is a rodent-borne zoonotic virus; it is the causative agent of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in humans.
Natalia V. Krylova +8 more
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Fucoidans: Downstream Processes and Recent Applications [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2020 Fucoidans are multifunctional marine macromolecules that are subjected to numerous and various downstream processes during their production. These processes were considered the most important abiotic factors affecting fucoidan chemical skeletons, quality,
Ahmed Zayed, Roland Ulber
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Microarray Glycan Profiling Reveals Algal Fucoidan Epitopes in Diverse Marine Metazoans [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2017 Despite the biological importance and pharmacological potential of glycans from marine organisms, there are many unanswered questions regarding their distribution, function, and evolution.
Armando A. Salmeán +4 more
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Therapies from Fucoidan: An Update [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2015 Fucoidans are a class of sulfated fucose-rich polysaccharides found in brown marine algae and echinoderms. Fucoidans have an attractive array of bioactivities and potential applications including immune modulation, cancer inhibition, and pathogen ...
Janet Helen Fitton +2 more
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Marine Drugs, 2015 Fucoidan, a sulfated polysaccharide purified from brown algae, has a variety of immune-modulation effects, such as promoting activation of dendritic cells (DCs), natural killer (NK) cells and T cells, and enhancing anti-viral and anti-tumor responses ...
Wei Zhang +3 more
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Marine Drugs, 2023 Human colorectal cancer (CRC) is a recurrent, deadly malignant tumour with a high incidence. The incidence of CRC is of increasing alarm in highly developed countries, as well as in middle to low-income countries, posing a significant global health ...
Blessing Mabate +3 more
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Immunopotentiating Activity of Fucoidans and Relevance to Cancer Immunotherapy
Marine Drugs, 2023 Fucoidans, discovered in 1913, are fucose-rich sulfated polysaccharides extracted mainly from brown seaweed. These versatile and nontoxic marine-origin heteropolysaccharides have a wide range of favorable biological activities, including antitumor ...
Yani Li +5 more
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Marine Drugs, 2021 Fucoidans from sea cucumber (SC-FUC) have been proven to alleviate insulin resistance in several species. However, there are few studies that clarify the relationship between their structure and bioactivity.
Shiwei Hu +8 more
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