Marine shells: Potential opportunities for extraction of functional and health-promoting materials

Y Hou, A Shavandi, A Carne, AA Bekhit… - Critical Reviews in …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Marine shell waste is a very rich source of several bioactive compounds and materials, such
as calcium, chitin, pigments, and proteins. Currently, this waste material is greatly …

Quinoid Pigments of Sea Urchins Scaphechinus mirabilis and Strongylocentrotus intermedius: Biological Activity and Potential Applications

NV Ageenko, KV Kiselev, NA Odintsova - Marine Drugs, 2022 - mdpi.com
This review presents literature data: the history of the discovery of quinoid compounds, their
biosynthesis and biological activity. Special attention is paid to the description of the quinoid …

The roles of spinochromes in four shallow water tropical sea urchins and their potential as bioactive pharmacological agents

L Brasseur, E Hennebert, L Fievez, G Caulier, F Bureau… - Marine Drugs, 2017 - mdpi.com
Spinochromes are principally known to be involved in sea urchin pigmentation as well as for
their potentially interesting pharmacological properties. To assess their biological role in sea …

Echinochrome pigment extracted from sea urchin suppress the bacterial activity, inflammation, nociception, and oxidative stress resulted in the inhibition of renal injury …

SA Sadek, SS Hassanein, AS Mohamed… - Journal of food …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The current study aimed to evaluate the antibacterial, anti‐inflammatory, analgesic, and
renoprotective effects of echinochrome pigment extracted from sea urchin. The disk diffusion …

[HTML][HTML] Potential impact of Paracentrotus lividus extract on diabetic rat models induced by high fat diet/streptozotocin

AM Soliman - The Journal of Basic & Applied Zoology, 2016 - Elsevier
Antioxidant therapy has been thought to be effectual for the prevention and treatment of
various diseases including diabetes. Therefore, the present study was designed to …

[HTML][HTML] Echinochrome pigment as novel therapeutic agent against experimentally-induced gastric ulcer in rats

DA Sayed, AM Soliman, SR Fahmy - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective evaluate the antiulcer healing effect of echinochrome pigment (Ech 5 and 10
mg/kg) extracted from sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus). Methods Severe gastric ulceration …

Kandungan gizi gonad dan aktivitas antibakteri ekstrak cangkang bulu babi (Diadema setosum)

S Hadinoto, ID Sukaryono… - Jurnal Pascapanen dan …, 2017 - bbp4b.litbang.kkp.go.id
Diadema setosum merupakan salah satu jenis bulu babi yang mempunyai nilai ekonomis.
Bagian tubuh yang dikonsumsi adalah gonadnya. Organisme ini dapat dimanfaatkan …

Antimicrobial agents from sea urchin (Diadema setosum) collected from the Red Sea, Egypt

W MM El-Sayed, MM Elshaer… - Egyptian Journal of …, 2020 - journals.ekb.eg
In the present study, sea urchin; Diadema setosumwas collected from the Egyptian Red Sea
coastline for investigating its antimicrobial activities. The physicochemical parameters of …

Antioxidant and anti-inflammatory cembrane-type diterpenoid from Echinoidea sea urchin Stomopneustes variolaris attenuates pro-inflammatory 5-lipoxygenase

P Francis, K Chakraborty - Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2020 - Springer
Chemical investigation of pharmacologically active compounds from the Echinoidea sea
urchin Stomopneustes variolaris resulted in the separation of an unreported cembrane type …

Identification and antioxidant of polyhydroxylated naphthoquinone pigments from sea urchin pigments of Echinometra mathaei

S Soleimani, M Yousefzadi, S Moein… - Medicinal Chemistry …, 2016 - Springer
The gonads of sea urchins are prized as a component of the highly priced sushi called “uni”
in Japanese customary nutrition. After removal of the edible gonads, the remaining shell and …