Since ancient times, seaweeds have been employed as source of highly bioactive
secondary metabolites that could act as key medicinal components. Furthermore, research …

Seaweeds have attracted high interest in recent years due to their chemical and bioactive
properties to find new molecules with valuable applications for humankind. Phenolic …

Seaweeds (marine macroalgae) are autotrophic organisms capable of producing many
compounds of interest. For a long time, seaweeds have been seen as a great nutritional …

Nowadays, one of the most important research directions that concerns the scientific world is
to exploit the earth's resources in a sustainable way. Considering the increasing interest in …

Due to diminishing petroleum reserves and deleterious environmental consequences of
exhaust gases from fossil-based fuels, research on renewable and environment friendly …

Research on the bioactives from seaweeds has increased in recent years. Antioxidant
activity is one of the most studied, due to the interest of these compounds both as …

There has been significant recent interest in the commercial utilisation of algae based on
their valuable chemical constituents many of which exhibit multiple bioactivities with …

Brown seaweeds are rich in sulfated polysaccharides that could potentially be exploited as
functional ingredients for human health. Over the years, sulfated polysaccharides with …

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: For nearly 2000 years Sargassum spp., a
brown seaweed, has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to treat a variety of …

Seaweed-based cosmetics are being gradually used by consumers as a substitute of
synthetic equivalent products. These seaweed-based products normally contain purified …