ReviewFrontiers in plant science2020
A Comprehensive and Comparative Analysis of the Fucoidan Compositional Data Across the Phaeophyceae.
Review in Frontiers in plant science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
41 citing papers in PubMed.
- Investigating fucoidan blend supplementation and resistance training in humans: a parallel randomized controlled trial design.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Fucoidans: a new frontier in brown seaweed research and biotechnology.Cell surface (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026Review
- Marine Polysaccharides: A Promising Source for Probiotic Delivery Systems.Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins · 2026Review
- Potential Role of Brown Macroalgae on Pig Health: A Review.ACS nutrition science · 2026Review
- Structure-Function Correlations of Commercial Fucoidan Extracts: Antioxidant, Antiviral, Antifungal, Antibacterial and Prebiotic Activities.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Phosphate deprivation restricts bacterial degradation of the marine polysaccharide fucoidan.Nature microbiology · 2026Article
- Navigating the challenges in fucoidan industrialization: factors affecting biological activity and strategies for application of functional material.Food science and biotechnology · 2026Review
- Enhancing cancer treatment with marine algae-derived bioactive chemicals: a review.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2025Review
- Article
- Article
- Fucoidan alginate and sulfated alginate microbeads induce distinct coagulation, inflammatory and fibrotic responses.Materials today. Bio · 2025Article
- Seaweed in the Diet as a Source of Bioactive Metabolites and a Potential Natural Immunity Booster: A Comprehensive Review.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The Impact of Fucoidan Extracts on Heat-Stress-Induced Loss of In Vitro Fast-Twitch Muscle Function in Mice.Muscles (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Article
- Review
- Undaria pinnatifida fucoidan extract inhibits activation of the NF-κB signaling pathway by herpes simplex virus type 1 and prevents amyloid-β peptide synthesis in retinal pigment epithelium cells.Archives of virology · 2025Article
- Mechanisms of recalcitrant fucoidan breakdown in marine Planctomycetota.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Polysaccharide sulfotransferases: the identification of putative sequences and respective functional characterisation.Essays in biochemistry · 2024Review
- Article
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
In the current review, compositional data on fucoidans extracted from more than hundred different species were surveyed through the available literature. The analysis of crude extracts, purified extracts or carefully isolated fractions is included in tabular form, discriminating the seaweed source by its taxonomical order (and sometimes the family). This survey was able to encounter some similarities between the different species, as well as some differences. Fractions which were obtained through anion-exchange chromatography or cationic detergent precipitation showed the best separation patterns: the fractions with low charge correspond mostly to highly heterogeneous fucoidans, containing (besides fucose) other monosaccharides like xylose, galactose, mannose, rhamnose, and glucuronic acid, and contain low-sulfate/high uronic acid proportions, whereas those with higher total charge usually contain mainly fucose, accompanied with variable proportions of galactose, are highly sulfated and show almost no uronic acids. The latter fractions are usually the most biologically active. Fractions containing intermediate proportions of both polysaccharides appear at middle ionic strengths. This pattern is common for all the orders of brown seaweeds, and most differences appear from the seaweed source (habitat, season), and from the diverse extraction, purification, and analytitcal methods. The Dictyotales appear to be the most atypical order, as usually large proportions of mannose and uronic acids appear, and thus they obscure the differences between the fractions with different charge. Within the family Alariaceae (order Laminariales), the presence of sulfated galactofucans with high galactose content (almost equal to that of fucose) is especially noteworthy.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.