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Marine Drugs, Volume 13, Issue 4

April 2015 - 49 articles

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Articles (49)

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
7,958 Views
29 Pages

15 April 2015

Thirteen new and eighteen known natural products were isolated from a bloom material of an assembly of various Microcystis spp. collected in November, 2008, from a commercial fishpond near Kibbutz Kfar Blum, the Jordan Valley, Israel. The new natural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,243 Views
18 Pages

Hyperoxia Elevates Adrenic Acid Peroxidation in Marine Fish and Is Associated with Reproductive Pheromone Mediators

  • Ming Long Sirius Chung,
  • Jean-Marie Galano,
  • Camille Oger,
  • Thierry Durand and
  • Jetty Chung-Yung Lee

14 April 2015

The development of oxidative stress in the marine ecosystem is a concurring concern in fish reproductive behavior. Marine fish being rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) are precursors of prostaglandin pheromone mediators but also vulnerable to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,590 Views
17 Pages

14 April 2015

A group of virulent Aeromonas hydrophila, A. sobria, and A. veronii biovar sobria strains isolated from humans and fish have been described; these strains classified to serotype O11 are serologically related by their lipopolysaccharide (LPS) O-antige...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
16,431 Views
17 Pages

Neuroprotective Effects of the Cultivated Chondrus crispus in a C. elegans Model of Parkinson’s Disease

  • Jinghua Liu,
  • Arjun H. Banskota,
  • Alan T. Critchley,
  • Jeff Hafting and
  • Balakrishnan Prithiviraj

14 April 2015

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder in the elderly people, currently with no cure. Its mechanisms are not well understood, thus studies targeting cause-directed therapy or prevention are needed. This study us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,748 Views
20 Pages

Esters of the Marine-Derived Triterpene Sipholenol A Reverse P-GP-Mediated Drug Resistance

  • Yongchao Zhang,
  • Yun-Kai Zhang,
  • Yi-Jun Wang,
  • Saurabh G. Vispute,
  • Sandeep Jain,
  • Yangmin Chen,
  • Jessalyn Li,
  • Diaa T. A. Youssef,
  • Khalid A. El Sayed and
  • Zhe-Sheng Chen

14 April 2015

Our previous studies showed that several sipholane triterpenes, sipholenol A, sipholenone E, sipholenol L and siphonellinol D, have potent reversal effect for multidrug resistance (MDR) in cancer cells that overexpressed P-glycoprotein (P-gp/ABCB1)....

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
8,776 Views
19 Pages

14 April 2015

This study was designed to investigate the antimicrobial activity of two synthetic antimicrobial peptides from an aquatic organism, tilapia piscidin 3 (TP3) and tilapia piscidin 4 (TP4), in vitro and in a murine sepsis model, as compared with ampicil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,468 Views
21 Pages

Xyloketal B Attenuates Atherosclerotic Plaque Formation and Endothelial Dysfunction in Apolipoprotein E Deficient Mice

  • Li-Yan Zhao,
  • Jie Li,
  • Feng Yuan,
  • Mei Li,
  • Quan Zhang,
  • Ji-Yan Pang,
  • Bin Zhang,
  • Fang-Yun Sun,
  • Hong-Shuo Sun and
  • Qian Li
  • + 7 authors

14 April 2015

Our previous studies demonstrated that xyloketal B, a novel marine compound with a unique chemical structure, has strong antioxidant actions and can protect against endothelial injury in different cell types cultured in vitro and model organisms in v...

  • Review
  • Open Access
287 Citations
28,173 Views
20 Pages

Fucoidan and Cancer: A Multifunctional Molecule with Anti-Tumor Potential

  • Farzaneh Atashrazm,
  • Ray M. Lowenthal,
  • Gregory M. Woods,
  • Adele F. Holloway and
  • Joanne L. Dickinson

14 April 2015

There is a wide variety of cancer types yet, all share some common cellular and molecular behaviors. Most of the chemotherapeutic agents used in cancer treatment are designed to target common deregulated mechanisms within cancer cells. Many healthy t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,112 Views
16 Pages

Inhibition of N-Type Calcium Channels by Fluorophenoxyanilide Derivatives

  • Ellen C. Gleeson,
  • Janease E. Graham,
  • Sandro Spiller,
  • Irina Vetter,
  • Richard J. Lewis,
  • Peter J. Duggan and
  • Kellie L. Tuck

13 April 2015

A set of fluorophenoxyanilides, designed to be simplified analogues of previously reported ω-conotoxin GVIA mimetics, were prepared and tested for N-type calcium channel inhibition in a SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma FLIPR assay. N-type or Cav2.2 channel is a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
8,932 Views
17 Pages

13 April 2015

The marine dinoflagellate Gymnodinium catenatum has been associated with paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) outbreaks in Portuguese waters for many years. PSP syndrome is caused by consumption of seafood contaminated with paralytic shellfish toxins...

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