Bioactive compounds from brown seaweeds: Phloroglucinol, fucoxanthin and fucoidan as promising therapeutic agents against breast cancer

Phytochemistry Letters

Volumn 14, Issue , 2015, Pages 91-98

  Padua D ^a,b   Rocha, E ^a,b   Gargiulo, D ^a,c   Ramos, A A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antitumor activity; Breast cancer; Brown seaweed; Fucoidan; Fucoxanthin; Phloroglucinol

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CAROTENOID; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; FUCOIDIN; FUCOXANTHIN; PHLOROGLUCINOL; PHLOROTANNIN; POLYPHENOL DERIVATIVE; POLYSACCHARIDE; TANNIN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BREAST CANCER; BROWN SEAWEED; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEAWEED;

EID: 84942853309     PISSN: 18743900     EISSN: 18767486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phytol.2015.09.007     Document Type: Review

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