Over the last decades, alginates, natural multifunctional polymers, have increasingly drawn
attention as attractive compounds in the biomedical and pharmaceutical fields due to their …

Modified alginates have a wide range of applications, including in the manufacture of
dressings and scaffolds used for regenerative medicine, in systems for selective drug …

Alginate oligosaccharides (AOS) are degradation products of alginate extracted from brown
algae. With low molecular weight, high water solubility, and good biological activity, AOS …

Alginate, an algal polysaccharide, is widely used in the food industry as a stabilizer, or as a
thickening or emulsifying agent. As an indigestible polysaccharide, alginate may also be …

Marine polysaccharides originated from seaweeds, including agar, alginate, carrageenan,
and fucoidan, possess various kinds of physiological activities and have been widely used …

Cardiovascular diseases, including myocardial infarction (MI), represent the main worldwide
cause of mortality and morbidity. In this scenario, to contrast the irreversible damages …

Many studies in the bone tissue engineering field have focused on the interactions between
materials and bone marrow stem cells. With the development of osteoimmunology, the …

Maintenance of homeostasis is the primary function of the immune system. It detects the
threats posed by pathogens, cancer, and tissue damage and mounts an immune response …

Approaches to the design and construction of biomimetic scaffolds for osteochondral tissue,
show increasing advances. Considering the limitations of this tissue in terms of repair and …

Previous studies had demonstrated that alginates from Sargassum sp.(Phaeophyta) showed
a considerable activity against various murine tumors. The aim present study is to …