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Sponges of the family Esperiopsidae (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) from Northwest Africa, with the descriptions of four new species [PDF]
, 2012 Sponges belonging to the genera Amphilectus Vosmaer, Esperiopsis Carter and Ulosa de Laubenfels of the family Esperiopsidae were collected during 1986 and 1988 expeditions of the Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis (at that time the National ...
Beglinger, Elly J. +2 more
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Freshwater Sponge Tubella variabilis Presents Richer Microbiota Than Marine Sponge Species
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019 Sponges can host diverse and abundant communities of microorganisms, which constitute an interesting source of bioactive compounds. Thus, to broaden our knowledge about the diversity of the microbiota that is found in freshwater sponges, the microbial ...
Marinella Silva Laport +2 more
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First continuous marine sponge cell line established
Scientific Reports, 2022 Abstract The potential of sponge-derived chemicals for pharmaceutical applications remains largely unexploited due to limited available biomass. Although many have attempted to culture marine sponge cells in vitro to create a scalable production platform for such biopharmaceuticals, these efforts have been mostly ...
Hesp, Kylie +6 more
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Marine-Derived Macrolides 1990–2020: An Overview of Chemical and Biological Diversity
Marine Drugs, 2021 Macrolides are a significant family of natural products with diverse structures and bioactivities. Considerable effort has been made in recent decades to isolate additional macrolides and characterize their chemical and bioactive properties. The majority
Hairong Zhang +7 more
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Marine Sponges as a Drug Treasure [PDF]
Biomolecules & Therapeutics, 2016 Marine sponges have been considered as a drug treasure house with respect to great potential regarding their secondary metabolites. Most of the studies have been conducted on sponge's derived compounds to examine its pharmacological properties.
Anjum, Komal +5 more
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Marine Drugs, 2019 Marine natural products (MNPs) continue to be in the spotlight in the global drug discovery endeavor. Currently, more than 30,000 structurally diverse secondary metabolites from marine sources have been isolated, making MNPs a profound, renewable source ...
Amr El-Demerdash +8 more
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Spongionella secondary metabolites protect mitochondrial function in cortical neurons against oxidative stress [PDF]
, 2014 Accepted: 8 January 2014 This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Acknowledgments
Alfonso, Amparo +9 more
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European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry ReportsThis review explores the non-random distribution of chemical novelty among marine invertebrate phyla, with a particular focus on Porifera (sponges), which have exhibited the highest average count of novel natural products per species since 1990. Sponges,
Afsona Khatun +7 more
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Marine sponge-derived natural products: trends and opportunities for the decade of 2011-2020
Frontiers in Marine ScienceThe discovery of natural products derived from marine sources has demonstrated a consistent upward trajectory for the decade of 2011-2020, holding significant promise for the development of novel drugs and many other marine bioproducts.
Mohammad Ferdous Mehbub +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2015 Sponge-associated microbial communities include members from the three domains of life. In the case of bacteria, they are diverse, host specific and different from the surrounding seawater.
Susana Rodríguez-Marconi +5 more
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