Important Determinants for Fucoidan Bioactivity: A Critical Review of Structure-Function Relations and Extraction Methods for Fucose-Containing Sulfated Polysaccharides from Brown Seaweeds

Fucoidan from Sargassum sp. and Fucus vesiculosus reduces cell viability of lung carcinoma and melanoma cells in vitro and activates natural killer cells in mice in vivo

(2011) Marcel Tutor Ale et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES

Designed optimization of a single-step extraction of fucose-containing sulfated polysaccharides from Sargassum sp.

(2011) Marcel Tutor Ale et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYCOLOGY

Chemical Structures and Bioactivities of Sulfated Polysaccharides from Marine Algae

(2011) Guangling Jiao et al.   Marine Drugs

Low molecular weight fucoidan prevents intimal hyperplasia in rat injured thoracic aorta through the modulation of matrix metalloproteinase-2 expression

(2010) Hanna Hlawaty et al.   BIOCHEMICAL PHARMACOLOGY

Fucoidan present in brown algae induces apoptosis of human colon cancer cells

(2010) Eun Ji Kim et al.   BMC GASTROENTEROLOGY

Structure and antitumour activity of fucoidan isolated from sporophyll of Korean brown seaweed Undaria pinnatifida

(2010) Andriy Synytsya et al.   CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS

Immunomodulatory activity of fucoidan against aspirin-induced gastric mucosal damage in rats

(2010) Hanumantha Rao Balaji Raghavendran et al.   INTERNATIONAL IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY

Fucoidan Film Safely Inhibits Surgical Adhesions in a Rat Model

(2010) Johanne D. Cashman et al.   JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH

Relationship between Oversulfation and Conformation of Low and High Molecular Weight Fucoidans and Evaluation of Their in Vitro Anticancer Activity

(2010) Myoung Lae Cho et al.   MOLECULES

Future Scenarios for the Treatment of Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Focus on Taxane-Containing Regimens

(2010) F. Grossi et al.   ONCOLOGIST

Higher specificity of the activity of low molecular weight fucoidan for thrombin-induced platelet aggregation

(2010) Zhixiang Zhu et al.   THROMBOSIS RESEARCH

Dose-response relationship for lung cancer induction at radiotherapy dose

(2010) Uwe Schneider et al.   Zeitschrift fur Medizinische Physik

Structural analysis of a fucoidan from the brown alga Fucus evanescens by MALDI-TOF and tandem ESI mass spectrometry

(2009) Stanislav D. Anastyuk et al.   CARBOHYDRATE RESEARCH

Structural characteristics and in vitro macrophage activation of acetyl fucoidan from Cladosiphon okamuranus

(2009) Takeshi Teruya et al.   GLYCOCONJUGATE JOURNAL

Potential antioxidant and anticoagulant capacity of low molecular weight fucoidan fractions extracted from Laminaria japonica

(2009) Jing Wang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES

Fucoidan Induces Apoptosis through Activation of Caspase-8 on Human Breast Cancer MCF-7 Cells

(2009) Yumi Yamasaki-Miyamoto et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY

Fucoidan: Structure and Bioactivity

(2008) Bo Li et al.   MOLECULES

Characterization of a fucoidan from Lessonia vadosa (Phaeophyta) and its anticoagulant and elicitor properties

(2007) N.P. Chandía et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES