Among the Marine algae, particularly the kelp, wakame, seaweed, sargassum, antlers vegetables, seaweed and other brown algae are edible seaweed food known by many people.
Nutritionists regard them as marine vegetables,
which contains almost all of the trace elements, minerals and rich polysaccharides. In all of them, the fucoidan in brown algae is popular in pharmaceutical raw materialindustry because of its content-rich, easy to get and other advantages.As a maritime country, Japan has long been the formation of large-scale farmed seaweed industry in recent years, its annual production of farmed seaweed up to millions of tons of algae development is also in the world. With the industrial advantage, Japan has become the world's first development and utilization of seaweed polysaccharides developed countries as a health product, one of the seaweed polysaccharides, according to a leading position in the international arena. It is understood that the Japanese market is now hundreds of varieties of seaweed polysaccharides health food, health food algae which famous brand of ‘fucoidan 25’, ‘the benefit of the sea,’ sea treasure and TAKARA-FUC and other products its main appeal is anti-bacterial health, improve immunity, lose weight, prevent diabetes and lowering blood pressure and so on. Inclusive of any kind of brown algae like seaweed polysaccharides, but the molecular structure of Fucoidan vary, some of which fucoidan has long been a pharmaceutical raw materials, such as known from the kelp laminarin from agar, from the carrageen , polysaccharide and the SFPS from Sargassum,plant extracts and so on. Because the molecular structure of Fucoidan is very different, so they have very different pharmacological effects. Overall, Fucoidan has a more active role in the physiological, including cancer, enhance immunity, anti-allergic, liver, fat and so on. In addition, there are some special pharmacological effects of Fucoidan, the latest study, called "”-carrageenan," the polysaccharides with Duchenne disease treatment (progressive muscular dystrophy) of the magical effect so far So far, scientists have found that this is the only direct treatment of this difficult disease, Duchenne's disease drugs. Currently, the ”-from Eucheuma carrageenan is still experimentation in the near future is expected to be listed drug; while laminarin and SFPS and other pharmacological effects have been clinically proven. Scientists so far isolated in all kinds of brown algae and other seaweed polysaccharides in order to Fucoidan the pharmacological effects of most scientists. Fucoidan can get in a lot of seaweed, and the high content of easily extracted, pharmacological effects are more, so they expected to be developed into the 21st century drug raw materials. More good news is that fucoidan has many interesting advantages. First of all, fucoidan is easily dissolved in water; Secondly, fucoidan is very easy to be absorbed by the body to use, no toxic effects on the human body. Japanese researchers have now isolated three different molecular structure of fucoidan, that G-, F-and U-fucoidan. These three fucoidan results of animal experiments show that they have a strong role in promoting cancer cell apoptosis and immune balance in the body and promote tissue regeneration effect, it is these three fucoidan is expected to be developed as a direct clinical anti-tumor drugs. It is understood that cancer has become the world second only to cardiovascular disease, a serious threat to human health, the second largest "killer disease", fucoidan newly discovered anti-cancer docetaxel effects against tumor undoubtedly adds a new weapon. Fucoidan wider sources. For example, currently the world's largest farmed seaweed food - about 50% of kelp production is used to extract bromine, bromine remaining after the extraction of the kelp residue that contains a very rich fucoidan, formerly kelp Most residue as fertilizer, unfortunately, the future can be kelp residue extracted fucoidan as new materials, so you can change waste into treasure, take advantage of fresh kelp product raw materials. In addition to kelp, another is the large-scale artificial breeding of seaweed - seaweed in the same rich fucoidan. Okinawa Prefecture, Japan from Okinawa marine aquaculture companies has already produced seaweed extract fucoidan in products as health food ingredients. As early as in 2078, the Japanese market has a variety of fucoidan cancer anti-cancer health food in Japan, consumers enjoy a good reputation. An associate professor of Saga University in Japan, Mr. Yong Kamei use of brown algae extract called ‘MC26’ new fucose polysaccharide has excellent anti-influenza virus effect. And other anti-flu drugs Tamiflu compared to, MC26 suppress viral replication more significant role. Confirmed by experiments on animals, MC26 can treat influenza A viruses, including changes caused by severe strains of influenza and highly pathogenic avian influenza virus to inhibit the replication of strains, therefore, of great clinical value. In vitro tests showed that, MC26 this newly discovered fucose polysaccharides can directly kill many strains of influenza virus variants of the avian flu virus headache also has a strong role in the killing, MC26 is expected to direct future development into the anti- types of influenza and avian flu drugs. So in the future, with the in-depth development, fucoidan will become a new drug ingredient in pharmaceutical industry.Source:http://www.cospcn.com
