Over the years, seaweeds have been highlighted as valuable natural sources of bioactive
polysaccharides. Fucoidan, a sulphated polysaccharide mainly from brown seaweeds …

Fucoidans are marine sulfated biopolysaccharides that have heterogenous and complicated
chemical structures. Various sugar monomers, glycosidic linkages, molecular masses …

Brown seaweeds are rich source of functional polysaccharides that exhibit various
bioactivities. However, Malaysian seaweeds are under-utilised, leading to low revenue …

In the current review, compositional data on fucoidans extracted from more than hundred
different species were surveyed through the available literature. The analysis of crude …

Fucoidan is a complex sulfated polysaccharide and an active component found in the cell
wall of brown seaweeds. In the present study, fucoidans were obtained from Sargassum …

Purified fucoidans SHAP-1 and SHAP-2 with apparent molecular weights of 6.55× 10 5 and
5.89× 10 5, respectively, were isolated from Sargassum henslowianum by ion-exchange …

Environmental concerns regarding the usage of nonrenewable materials are driving up the
demand for biodegradable marine biopolymers. Marine biopolymers are gaining increasing …

Natural polysaccharides as sustainable polymers are rich sources with good biological
safety and various biological functions, which are important research topics in the fields of …

Background Diabetes mellitus is an endocrine and metabolic system disease characterized
by hyperglycaemia and insulin resistance, and has become a prevalent disease around the …

The influence of conventional and novel extraction technologies on the structure-prebiotic
activity relationship of fucoidan extracts was investigated. Fucoidan extracted from …