With the limited fossil fuel resources and aggravating energy crisis, coupled with the concern about the climate change caused by greenhouse gases, many people hope that renewable fuels will be developed as an alternative to fossil fuels, with special attention being paid to bioethanol.1,2 Compared to fossil fuels, biofuels emit less ozone, benzene, carbon dioxide and other harmful pollutants. ...

Though the marine world has attracted the attention of the research community for years together, yet the therapeutic potentiality of marine phyto-planktons is largely unexplored. Enzymes play a pathogenic role and are the underlying cause of several diseases like diabetes, Alzheimer, Parkinson etc. Inhibition of such enzymes can serve as a therapeutic strategy against the diseases. Enzymes lik...

Cancer is one of the diseases that cause biggest death in world. The research for natural compounds derived from marine very developed at this time, especially algae. Brown algae have more phenolic content than other types algae, T. decurrens Bory brown had taken Indonesian island Dutungan, South Sulawesi. Phenolic groups are also known to be able inhibit growth cancer cells. purpose study isol...

Marine algae are significant ingredients to formulate drugs for treating disease as they possess various bioactive potentials. This review expansively compares the antiinflammatory compounds from different marine algae. The anti-inflammatory effects of several different crude extracts and pure compounds of algae have been evaluated.Natural products from marine algae have potential resources in ...

Fucoidan is a generic term for a class of fucose rich, structurally diverse sulfated polysaccharides that are found in brown algae and other marine organisms. Depending on the species from which the fucoidan is extracted, a wide variety of biological activities including antitumor, antiinflammatory, immune-modulating, antiviral, antibacterial and proand anticoagulant activities has been describ...

Kelps, brown algae of the order Laminariales, dominate rocky shores and form huge kelp beds which provide habitat and nurseries for various marine organisms. Whereas the basic physiological and ecophysiological characteristics of kelps are well studied, the molecular processes underlying acclimation to different light and temperature conditions are still poorly understood. Therefore we investig...

Reexamination of some previous collections of marine algae from the Northwest Hawaiian Islands (NWHI), also known as the Leeward Hawaiian Islands, and the addition of more recent collections have resulted in recognition of 48 taxa of Chlorophyta (green algae), with eight new records for the NWHI; 33 taxa of Phaeophyta (brown algae), with seven new records; and 124 species ofRhodophyta (red alga...