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Marine organisms: The under explored resources to develop high value compounds and therapeutic products

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/13018/
 
Title Marine organisms: The under explored resources to develop high value compounds and therapeutic products
 
Creator Gopalakrishnan, A
 
Subject Bioactive compounds
 
Description There has been a growing interest in functional foods (or nutraceuticals) in recent years,
and the functional foods, enriched with natural ingredients have been proved to provide
beneficial action for human health. Marine derived bioactive components and the functional
food ingredients demonstrated to possess health benefits. High value secondary bioactive
metabolites from the marine organisms are attracting attention because of the growing
demand for new compounds of ‘marine natural’ origin, having potential applications in
pharmaceutical fields, and concerns about the toxic effects by synthetic drugs and their
derivatives. The R & D works at ICAR- Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute on marine
bioprospecting envisaged a systematic approach involving chemical profiling of major species
of marine organisms for bioactive pharmacophore leads for activity against various oxidative
stress-induced diseases with a focus on hypercholesterolmia, hypertension, diabetes,
inflammation, hypothyroidism, and a library of molecules with bioactive potential. This
research work also developed protocols to prepare various nutraceuticals/functional food
supplements enriched with lead molecules with different properties against various drug
targets for use against various lifestyle disorders.
 
Date 2018
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/13018/1/Winter%20School_Recent%20Advances_Bioactive%20compounds_Chapter%201.pdf
Gopalakrishnan, A (2018) Marine organisms: The under explored resources to develop high value compounds and therapeutic products. In: Winter School on “Recent advances in bioactive compounds from marine organisms and development of high value products for health management, ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi.