The sulphated polysaccharides extracteds from marin brown algae, represent a source of marine compounds with potential applications in medicine and main compounds of fucoidan are L-fucose and sulphate ester groups.
It has been reported that fucoidan inhibited cancer(Aisa et al. 2005; Liu et al. 2005).
Enhanced the immune functions in cell studies(Blondin et al. 1996;Hsu et al. 2001).
However