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ReviewPharmacognosy reviews2014

Therapeutic potential and health benefits of Sargassum species.

Subhash R Yende, Uday N Harle, Bhupal B Chaugule

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Review in Pharmacognosy reviews, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers.

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56citing papers in PubMed
18.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

56 citing papers in PubMed, 198 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Subhash R YendeDepartment of Pharmacology, Gurunanak College of Pharmacy, Nagpur, India.
Uday N HarleDepartment of Clinical Research Consultant, Nagpur, India.
Bhupal B ChauguleDepartment of Botany, University of Pune, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Savitribai Phule Pune University · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sargassum species are tropical and sub-tropical brown macroalgae (seaweed) of shallow marine meadow. These are nutritious and rich source of bioactive compounds such as vitamins, carotenoids, dietary fibers, proteins, and minerals. Also, many biologically active compounds like terpenoids, flavonoids, sterols, sulfated polysaccharides, polyphenols, sargaquinoic acids, sargachromenol, pheophytine were isolated from different Sargassum species. These isolated compounds exhibit diverse biological activities like analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, neuroprotective, anti-microbial, anti-tumor, fibrinolytic, immune-modulatory, anti-coagulant, hepatoprotective, anti-viral activity etc., Hence, Sargassum species have great potential to be used in pharmaceutical and neutralceutical areas. This review paper explores the current knowledge of phytochemical, therapeutic potential, and health benefits of different species of genus Sargassum.

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Brown seaweedSargassumsulfated polysaccharidetherapeutic potential

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PMID24600190
PMCPMC3931196
OpenAlexW2002538655

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