[HTML][HTML] Marine fucoidans: Structural, extraction, biological activities and their applications in the food industry

EO Mensah, ON Kanwugu, PK Panda, P Adadi - Food Hydrocolloids, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the years, seaweeds have been highlighted as valuable natural sources of bioactive
polysaccharides. Fucoidan, a sulphated polysaccharide mainly from brown seaweeds …

Fucoidan-based nanoparticles: Preparations and applications

J Venkatesan, SS Murugan, GH Seong - International Journal of Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanoparticle-based therapy has gained much attention in the pharmaceutical industry.
Fucoidan is a sulfated polysaccharide naturally derived from marine brown algae and is …

Development and characterization of a fucoidan-based nanoemulsion using Nigella sativa oil for improvement of anti-obesity activity of fucoxanthin in an obese rat …

N Oliyaei, N Tanideh, M Moosavi-Nasab… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The anti-obesity activity of encapsulated fucoxanthin in fucoidan-based nanoemulsion was
investigated. Then, high-fat diet (HFD) induced-obese rats were fed along with different …

Nano-sized fucoidan interpolyelectrolyte complexes: Recent advances in design and prospects for biomedical applications

NV Dubashynskaya, ER Gasilova… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The marine polysaccharide fucoidan (FUC) is a promising polymer for pharmaceutical
research and development of novel drug delivery systems with modified release and …

Seaweeds' nutraceutical and biomedical potential in cancer therapy: a concise review

J Cotas, D Pacheco, AMM Gonçalves… - Journal of cancer …, 2021 - estudogeral.uc.pt
Seaweeds have been a food source since ancient times (600 BC) and are still widely used
in Asia, mainly in traditional Chinese medicine and Japanese folk medicine. Nowadays …

Fucoidan based polymeric nanoparticles encapsulating epirubicin: a novel and effective chemotherapeutic formulation against colorectal cancer

SH Khan, M Anees, SFF Zofair, F Rasool… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common and challenging malignancy that needs
some effective and safer chemotherapeutic agents for the treatment. In this study, anticancer …

Cancer-fighting potentials of algal polysaccharides as nutraceuticals

Y Ouyang, Y Qiu, Y Liu, R Zhu, Y Chen… - Food Research …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cancer has been listed as one of the world's five incurable diseases by the World Health
Organization and causes tens of thousands of deaths every year. Unfortunately, anticancer …

Fucoidan-based nanomaterial and its multifunctional role for pharmaceutical and biomedical applications

MW Iqbal, T Riaz, S Mahmood, M Bilal… - Critical Reviews in …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Fucoidans are promising sulfated polysaccharides isolated from marine sources that have
piqued the interest of scientists in recent years due to their widespread use as a bioactive …

Novel Fucoidan Pharmaceutical Formulations and Their Potential Application in Oncology—A Review

N Zahariev, P Katsarov, P Lukova, B Pilicheva - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Fucoidan belongs to the family of marine sulfated, L-fucose-rich polysaccharides found in
the cell wall matrix of various brown algae species. In the last few years, sulfated …

Fucoidan-Coated Silica Nanoparticles Promote the Differentiation of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells into the Osteogenic Lineage

S Amorim, O Dudik, D Soares da Costa… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Silica nanoparticles (SiNPs) are widely used in biomedical applications, such as cancer
therapy/diagnosis or tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Herein, we synthesized …