Compositional Characteristics and In Vitro Evaluations of Antioxidant and Neuroprotective Properties of Crude Extracts of Fucoidan Prepared from Compressional Puffing-Pretreated Sargassum crassifolium

Fucoidan, a fucose-containing sulfated polysaccharide with diverse biological functions, is mainly recovered from brown algae. In this study, we utilized a compressional-puffing process (CPP) to pretreat Sargassum crassifolium (SC) and extracted fucoidans from SC by warm water. Three fucoidan extrac...

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Main Authors: Wen-Ning Yang, Po-Wei Chen, Chun-Yung Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-06-01
Series:Marine Drugs
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/15/6/183