Fucoxanthin and its metabolites in edible brown algae cultivated in deep seawater

Marine Drugs

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 63-72

  Mori, Kanami ^a   Ooi, Takashi ^a   Hiraoka, Masanori ^b   Oka, Naohiro ^c   Hamada, Hideyuki ^d   Tamura, Mitsumasa ^d   Kusumi, Takenori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Kochi Prefectural Deep Seawater Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brown algae; Deep seawater; Fucoxanthin; Laminaria religiosa; Petalonia binghamiae; Scytosiphon lomentaria; Undaria pinnatifida

Indexed keywords

EID: 22644431576     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16603397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/md202063     Document Type: Article

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