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Therapeutic health booster: seaweeds against several maladies

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Title Therapeutic health booster: seaweeds against several maladies
 
Creator Mohapatra, Lucy
Pati, Premalata
Panigrahy, Ramachandra
Bhattamisra, Subrat Kumar
 
Subject Bioactive compounds
Seaweeds
Nutraceuticals
Phycocolloids
Fucoxanthin
 
Description 538-546
Seaweeds (marine macro algae) are extremely
important oceanic resource having unique secondary metabolites. They have the
potential for supporting industrial development as being source of many
essential substances such as pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, nutritional
supplements etc. Seaweeds offer a wide range of therapeutic possibilities was
established only some decades ahead. Several pharmacologically important
metabolites have been discovered from seaweeds in recent years, the
exploitation of seaweeds for therapeutically active molecules is still in its
embryonic stage. In order to harness the rich therapeutic potential of seaweeds
the present limited use needs to be diversified into several applications. Present
review highlights a state of art on the medicinal value of seaweeds and their
exploitation scenario on a global scale.
 
Date 2013-12-13T12:17:11Z
2013-12-13T12:17:11Z
2013-09
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/24783
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.42(5) [September 2013]