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Fucoidan Characterization: Determination of Purity and Physicochemical and Chemical Properties.
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79 citing papers in PubMed.
- Fucoidans: a new frontier in brown seaweed research and biotechnology.Cell surface (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026Review
- Therapeutic role of fucoidans against oxidative stress: recent developments, translational challenges, and future directions.Archives of toxicology · 2026Review
- Therapeutic role of fucoidans against oxidative stress: recent developments, translational challenges, and future directions.Archives of toxicology · 2026Review
- Determining Carrageenan Sulfate Groups Using Ion Association with Alcian Blue Dye.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Algal Bioactive Metabolites with Important Roles in Wound Healing.Pharmaceutics · 2026Review
- Neuroprotective potential of marine-derived polysaccharide against Aβ42-induced toxicity in a Drosophila Alzheimer's disease model.Molecular biology reports · 2026Article
- Molecular Basis and Mechanistic Insights intoPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- In Vitro Antiviral Effects of Green-Lipped Mussel Oil and Low-Molecular-Weight Fucoidan on HSV, RSV, and SARS-CoV-2 Pseudovirus.Biomedicines · 2026Article
- Fucoidan Oligosaccharides fromMarine drugs · 2026Article
- Seaweed bioactives: A comprehensive review of their nutritional, medicinal, and functional roles.iScience · 2026Review
- Structure-Function Correlations of Commercial Fucoidan Extracts: Antioxidant, Antiviral, Antifungal, Antibacterial and Prebiotic Activities.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Separation of sulfated fucose-containing isomers found in polysaccharides from brown seaweed using cyclic ion mobility mass spectrometry.RSC advances · 2026Article
- Fucoidan: An Update on Function, Role in Human Health and Applications.Chemical biology & drug design · 2026Review
- Extraction and Optimization of Fucoidan From Sargassum muticum Using Acidic Eutectic Solvents and Evaluation of Their Effects on Fibroblast Cell Lines.ChemistryOpen · 2026Article
- Therapeutic potential of fucoidan from a persian gulf alga (Sargassum tenerrimum) in rheumatoid arthritis: In vivo evaluation in a rat model.Inflammopharmacology · 2026Article
- Ulvan and Ulva oligosaccharides from Ulva sp. attenuate osteoarthritis in a high-fat diet and ligamentous meniscal injury-induced rat model.Bioresources and bioprocessing · 2026Article
- From Sea to Sight: Fucoidan Protects Against Oxidative Damage in Porcine Retina Organ Culture.Marine drugs · 2026Article
- Navigating the challenges in fucoidan industrialization: factors affecting biological activity and strategies for application of functional material.Food science and biotechnology · 2026Review
- Seaweed sulfated polysaccharides regulate the gut microbiota-mucosal barrier-innate immunity axis: structural heterogeneity, immunological evidence, and translational prospects.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Fucoidan and alginate from brown seaweeds: extraction, structural diversity, biocompatibility, biodegradability, and biomedical applications.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Review
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Abstract
Fucoidans are marine sulfated biopolysaccharides that have heterogenous and complicated chemical structures. Various sugar monomers, glycosidic linkages, molecular masses, branching sites, and sulfate ester pattern and content are involved within their backbones. Additionally, sources, downstream processes, and geographical and seasonal factors show potential effects on fucoidan structural characteristics. These characteristics are documented to be highly related to fucoidan potential activities. Therefore, numerous chemical qualitative and quantitative determinations and structural elucidation methods are conducted to characterize fucoidans regarding their physicochemical and chemical features. Characterization of fucoidan polymers is considered a bottleneck for further biological and industrial applications. Consequently, the obtained results may be related to different activities, which could be improved afterward by further functional modifications. The current article highlights the different spectrometric and nonspectrometric methods applied for the characterization of native fucoidans, including degree of purity, sugar monomeric composition, sulfation pattern and content, molecular mass, and glycosidic linkages.
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