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Mariculture of marine sponges for drug development : bioactivity potentials of cultured sponges, Callyspongia subarmigera (Ridley) and Echinodictyum gorgonoides (Dendy)

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Title Mariculture of marine sponges for drug development : bioactivity
potentials of cultured sponges, Callyspongia subarmigera
(Ridley) and Echinodictyum gorgonoides (Dendy)
 
Creator Lipton, A P
Sunith, Shine
 
Subject Mariculture
Sponges
Gorgonids
 
Description Among all metazoan phyla, marine sponges are
considered as the richest source of biologically and
pharmacologically active chemicals. More than
5,300 different products are recorded from sponges
and their associated microorganisms. Every year,
about 200 new metabolites are reported from
sponges. Considering the emerging diseases and
the rapid development of disease resistance among
microbes, the detection of novel metabolites from
sponges gains importance and also provides scope
for developing new drugs against disease causing
bacteria, virus, fungi and parasites. In nature, the
chemical interactions in the marine habitat of
sponges suggest that products from them function
as defense tools to protect them against predators
including fish. Sponge product ara-A (vidarabine),
the anti-viral drug used against the Herpes simplex
encephalitis virus has advanced to the late stages
of clinical trials.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Date 2009
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/6469/1/3._Lip.pdf
Lipton, A P and Sunith, Shine (2009) Mariculture of marine sponges for drug development : bioactivity potentials of cultured sponges, Callyspongia subarmigera (Ridley) and Echinodictyum gorgonoides (Dendy). Marine Fisheries Information Service T&E Series (202). pp. 7-10.