extensive research in the last decade has defined that most chronic diseases display dysregulation of multiple cell signaling pathways that have been linked to inflammation. neuroinflammation is reaction of living nervous tissue to injury. it may be initiated in response to neurological disease. including infection, traumatic brain injury, toxic metabolites and autoimmunity. the natural compoun...

The marine environment is known as a rich source of chemical structures with numerous beneficial health effects. Among marine organisms, marine algae have been identified as an under-exploited plant resource, although they have long been recognized as valuable sources of structurally diverse bioactive compounds. Presently, several lines of studies have provided insight into biological activitie...

1 Marine Biology and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological and Marine Sciences, Plymouth University, Plymouth, United Kingdom, 2 Food, Health and Nutrition, School of Biological and Marine Sciences, Plymouth University, Plymouth, United Kingdom, 3 Shimoda Marine Research Centre, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, 4 Marine Conservation and Policy Research Centre, School of Biological...

The process of decomposition of bodies in the marine environment is poorly understood and almost nothing is currently known about the microorganisms involved. This study aimed to investigate the microbes involved in decomposition in the sea and to evaluate the potential use of marine bacterial succession for postmortem submersion interval (PMSI) estimation, for which there is currently no relia...

Introduction The marine resources are nowadays widely studied because of numerous reasons. One of the reason is as the oceans cover more than 70% of the world surface and among 36 known living phyla, 34 of them are found in marine environments with more than 300000+ known species of fauna and flora . The rationale of searching for drugs from marine environment stem from the fact that marine pla...

total petroleum hydrocarbon ( tph ) are environmental contaminants that are released into the marine environment through oil spills, industrial and domestic activities. tph are readily transformed into more hydrophilic metabolites, which are accumulated in bile. thus fish bile can be used as a biomarker of exposure of fish to tph in the marine environment. in this study several stations were se...

background: sediments in marine environment have a large capacity in binding with heavy metals; therefore, they are potential pollutants of water resources. the anzali wetland, located in the southern region of the caspian sea, iran, has been consistently threatened by heavy metal pollutants because of urban, agricultural and industrial wastewater inflow. the purpose of this study is to investi...

F o r a s n a M a r a " to undertake, to coordinate , to promote and assist in marine research and development and to provide such services related to marine research and development that, in the opinion of the Institute, will promote economic development and create employment, and protect the marine environment ". The Maritime INTERREG Series was established to promote the dissemination of res...

Even before the development of the idea to exploit marine biomolecules for human needs (pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, etc.), the interest for such compounds is implicit when one ponders the astonishingly basic definition of marine biotechnology as " a natural extension of cultural practices of garnering food from the ocean " by the anthropologist Helmreich who beautifully summarizes the origins o...