Sargassum homeri

Preeprame, S., Hayashi, K., Lee, J. B., Sankawa, U., and Hayashi, T. (2001). A novel antivirally active fucan sulfate derived from an edible brown alga, Sargassum homeri. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 49, 484M85. 

Matsumoto, T., Hokari, Y., Hashizume, M., and Yamaguchi, M. (2008). Effect of Sargassum homeri extract on circulating bone metabolic markers Supplemental intake has an effect in healthy humans. /. Health Sci. 54,50-55. 

Yamaguchi, M., Hachiya, S., Hiratuka, S., and Suzuki, T. (2(X)1). Effect of marine algae extract on bone calcification in the femoral-metaphyseal tissues of rats Anabolic effect of Sargassum homeri. J. Health Sci. i7,533-538. 

Some sulfated polysaccharides of brovm algae, such as those isolated from the species Sargassum homeri, S. patens, and S. tenerrimum, also have antiviral properties although, except for their sugar composition, no information on the structure of these polysaccharides seems to have been published however, the high levels of fucose allow the consideration of structures similar to those of fucoidans (Hoshino et al., 1999 Zhu et al., 2003, 2004 Sinha et al, 2010). 

Hoshino, T, Hayashi, T, Hayashi, K, Hamada, J., Lee, J.B., and Sankawa, U. (1999) An antivirally active sulphated polysaccharide from Sargassum homeri. Biol. Pharm. Bull., 21, 730-734. 

The antibiotic and antifungal fusarielins A-D were isolated in 1995 from the culture broth of the soil fungus Fusarium sp. K432 (Kobayashi et al., 1995), and in 2007 the related dehydroxychlorofusarielin B was isolated from the marine-derived Aspergillus sp. collected on the Korean species Sargassum homeri. 

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