Cosmeceutical compounds

Owing to the immense diversity of animals and microbes in the marine environments, and their almost untouched capacity to produce natural products, the importance for marine pharmaceutical and nutra-ceutical industries was realized on a broad basis by the scientific communities recently. This has strengthened worldwide research activities on the exploration of bioactive compounds from marine organisms for pharmaceutical use, as well as the development of other valuable products, such as enzymes, nutraceuticals, and cosmeceuticals. 

Hence, the emphasis on screening of MMPIs from different natural resources has gained much importance and marine resources are one among them. As marine organisms have been contributing with several biologically active compounds that have profound applications in nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals, and pharmaceuticals in this chapter, an attempt has been made to discuss the various MMPIs from edible seaweeds, which could be considered as medicinal foods. 

It is a well-understood fact that marine flora harbors a wide range of biologically active compounds that are reported to have an outstanding prospective in the medicinal, nutraceutical, and cosmeceutical applications. Natural metabolites obtained from marine seaweeds prove to be abundant resources with chemical diversity, and among them, phlorotannins are studied most for fheir biological activities. These phlorotannins (Fig. 10.1) are derived from fannins and are composed of several phloroglucinol units linked to each other in different ways and mostly... 

Marine algae hold immense potential to be utilized as photoprotective elements. Proper utilization of this resource would pave a pay for future detonation in the cosmeceutics and medicinal food market. Advanced biotechnological approaches need to be implied to ocean sciences to explore the vast prospective of these photoprotective agents. Strategies need to be formulated for the appropriate usage of the marine algal photoprotective compounds as an answer to the photodamage caused by UVA/UVB or even the xenobiotics. 

Morganti P, Morganti G., Muzzarelli R.A. A., and Muzzarelh C. 2007a. Chitin nanofihrils A natural compound for innovative cosmeceuticals. C T 122(4) 81-88. 

Sezer, A.D., Hatipoglu, F., Cevher, E., Ogurtan, Z., Bag, A.L., Akbuga, J., 2007. Beneficial effects of marine algal compounds in cosmeceuticals. AAPS PharmSciTech 8, 94-101. 

In all groups of terpenes, it is possible to find compounds with bioactive functions, and for this reasmi, they have been used since ancient times for their pharmacological properties. Terpenes also give plants their characteristic tastes and flavors and have been used as food additives or cosmeceuticals, and more recently, properties such as the antioxidant activity of carotenoids have given these... 

MARINE BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS FOR POTENTIAL COSMECEUTICAL APPLICATIONS... 

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