Nutrients and bioactive potentials of edible green and red seaweed in Korea
Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 2018 Background Traditionally, East-Asians (Korea, Japan, and China) utilize seaweeds as a food source and ingredient in traditional medicine. Korea is one of the biggest seaweed producer and consumer in the global trade.
K. K. Asanka Sanjeewa +2 more
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Anticancer Effects of Seaweed-Derived Bioactive Compounds
Applied Sciences, 2021 Cancer remains a major life-threatening disease worldwide. The development of anticancer drugs using natural products obtained from marine organisms has been proposed as an alternative approach.
Heesu Lee, Baskar Selvaraj, Jae Wook Lee
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Acidification increases abundances of Vibrionales and Planctomycetia associated to a seaweed-grazer system: potential consequences for disease and prey digestion efficiency [PDF]
, 2018 Ocean acidification significantly affects marine organisms in several ways, with complex interactions. Seaweeds might benefit from rising CO2 through increased photosynthesis and carbon acquisition, with subsequent higher growth rates.
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Antiviral Activity and Mechanisms of Seaweeds Bioactive Compounds on Enveloped Viruses—A Review
Marine Drugs, 2022 In the last decades, the interest in seaweed has significantly increased. Bioactive compounds from seaweed’s currently receive major attention from pharmaceutical companies as they express several interesting biological activities which are beneficial ...
Silvia Lomartire, A. Gonçalves
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Anti-Photoaging and Potential Skin Health Benefits of Seaweeds
Marine Drugs, 2021 The skin health benefits of seaweeds have been known since time immemorial. They are known as potential renewable sources of bioactive metabolites that have unique structural and functional features compared to their terrestrial counterparts. In addition,
R. Pangestuti, K. Shin, Se-Kwon Kim
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Increasing The Quality Of Dry Seaweeds By Drum Washing Machine
Journal of Innovation and Applied Technology, 2015 Jabon area, Sidoarjo district is one of shoreline area that it have about 40 percentage of this is ponds. These used farming of agarophyte seaweeds, i.e. alga producing agar-agar, such as Gracilaria sp.
Muhamad Firdaus
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Potential Use of Marine Seaweeds as Prebiotics: A Review
Molecules, 2020 Human gut microbiota plays an important role in several metabolic processes and human diseases. Various dietary factors, including complex carbohydrates, such as polysaccharides, provide abundant nutrients and substrates for microbial metabolism in the ...
Aroa López-Santamarina +6 more
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Occurrence of Lead, Cadmium and Mercury in Seaweeds from Calatagan, Batangas, Philippines
PUP Journal of Science and TechnologyEating seaweeds have many nutritional benefits to the body. Seaweeds also have many industrial uses such as bioremediation of polluted water. Batangas, Philippines is an industrial province located near the coast where seaweeds are abundant.
Abigail P. Cid-Andres +2 more
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Molecular Mechanisms for Microbe Recognition and Defense by the Red Seaweed
mSphere, 2017 The ability to recognize and respond to the presence of microbes is an essential strategy for seaweeds to survive in the marine environment, but understanding of molecular seaweed-microbe interactions is limited.
Louisi Souza de Oliveira +7 more
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Anti-colorectal cancer effects of seaweed-derived bioactive compounds
Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 Seaweeds are classified as Chlorophyta, Rhodophyta, and Phaeophyta. They constitute a number of the most significant repositories of new therapeutic compounds for human use.
Yunhua Fu +7 more
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