Anticancer potential and content of fucoidan extracted from sporophyll of New Zealand Undaria pinnatifida

Anticancer potential and content of fucoidan extracted from sporophyll of New Zealand Undaria pinnatifida

Undaria pinnatifida is a species of brown seaweed known to contain rich amounts of fucoidan, a sulphated polysaccharide known to possess various biological activities. We isolated crude fucoidan (F0) from the sporophylls of U. pinnatifida grown in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. Sulphate cont...

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Main Authors: Wilfred eMak, Kelvin Sheng Wang, Tingting eLiu, Nazimah eHamid, Yan eLi, Jun eLu, William Lindsey White
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Nutrition
Subjects:
Fractionation
Cytotoxicity
extraction
fucoidan
sporophyll
Undaria pinnatifida
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnut.2014.00009/full

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