Seaweed for climate mitigation, wastewater treatment, bioenergy, bioplastic, biochar, food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics: a review

M Farghali, IMA Mohamed, AI Osman… - Environmental Chemistry …, 2023 - Springer
The development and recycling of biomass production can partly solve issues of energy,
climate change, population growth, food and feed shortages, and environmental pollution …

Ions-induced gelation of alginate: Mechanisms and applications

C Hu, W Lu, A Mata, K Nishinari, Y Fang - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Alginate is an important natural biopolymer and has been widely used in the food,
biomedical, and chemical industries. Ca 2+-induced gelation is one of the most important …

[HTML][HTML] Applying seaweed compounds in cosmetics, cosmeceuticals and nutricosmetics

L López-Hortas, N Flórez-Fernández, MD Torres… - Marine drugs, 2021 - mdpi.com
The interest in seaweeds for cosmetic, cosmeceutics, and nutricosmetics is increasing
based on the demand for natural ingredients. Seaweeds offer advantages in relation to their …

Smart polymeric nanoparticles in cancer immunotherapy

Z Yu, X Shen, H Yu, H Tu, C Chittasupho, Y Zhao - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cancer develops with unexpected mutations and causes death in many patients. Among the
different cancer treatment strategies, immunotherapy is promising with the benefits of high …

[HTML][HTML] Antiviral activity of carrageenans and processing implications

M Álvarez-Viñas, S Souto, N Flórez-Fernández… - Marine Drugs, 2021 - mdpi.com
Carrageenan and carrageenan oligosaccharides are red seaweed sulfated carbohydrates
with well-known antiviral properties, mainly through the blocking of the viral attachment …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of oxidative stress and PI3K/AKT/mTOR on metabolism and the future direction of investigating fucoidan-modulated metabolism

JP Shiau, YT Chuang, YB Cheng, JY Tang, MF Hou… - Antioxidants, 2022 - mdpi.com
The critical factors for regulating cancer metabolism are oxidative stress and
phosphoinositide-3-kinase/AKT serine-threonine kinase/mechanistic target of the rapamycin …

[HTML][HTML] Algae and their metabolites as potential bio-pesticides

E Asimakis, AA Shehata, W Eisenreich, F Acheuk… - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
An increasing human population necessitates more food production, yet current techniques
in agriculture, such as chemical pesticide use, have negative impacts on the ecosystems …

Alginates combined with natural polymers as valuable drug delivery platforms

K Kruk, K Winnicka - Marine drugs, 2022 - mdpi.com
Alginates (ALG) have been used in biomedical and pharmaceutical technologies for
decades. ALG are natural polymers occurring in brown algae and feature multiple …