Disease relevance of Fucus

• The effects of some medicinal plants (i.e. Fucus vesiculosus, Citrus aurantium) that are claimed to be useful in the treatment of obesity are reviewed [1].

High impact information on Fucus

• Role of a vitronectin-like molecule in embryo adhesion of the brown alga Fucus [2].
• The results are discussed in relation to other published work on the differentiation of Fucus embryos and on polysaccharide sulphation [3].
• Early embryo development in Fucus distichus is auxin sensitive [4].
• Inhibition of the establishment of zygotic polarity by protein tyrosine kinase inhibitors leads to an alteration of embryo pattern in Fucus [5].
• Glycoprotein domains and their role in gamete recognition in Fucus [6].

Biological context of Fucus

• We examined sequence differences in a 135-base pair (bp) region of the nad11 gene in mitochondria of the intertidal rockweed, Fucus serratus, using single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) [7].
• Biochemical responses of the marine macroalgae Ulva lactuca and Fucus vesiculosus to cadmium and copper-from sequestration to oxidative stress [8].
• The activity concentration of (99)Tc in brown seaweed (Fucus vesiculosus and Fucus serratus) and seawater were analysed in samples collected in 1991, 1995 and 2001 at several stations along the Swedish west coast [9].

Anatomical context of Fucus

• Cytokine profiles in colonic lamina propria indicated that the synthesis of interferon (IFN)-gamma and IL-6 decreased and that of IL-10 and transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta increased in mice fed Cladosiphon fucoidan, compared with mice fed a standard diet or Fucus fucoidan [10].
• Dextran sulfate, carrageenan, and Fucus fucoidan also stimulated the secretion of TNFalpha from macrophages, while Cladosiphon fucoidan did not [11].
• Assessment of the effect of Fucus vesiculosus extract on the labeling of blood constituents with technetium-99m and the histological modifications on the shape of the red blood cells [12].

Associations of Fucus with chemical compounds

• Mixed Cd/Zn species were also formed when Cd(2+) was added to the Zn-containing Fucus metallothionein [13].
• Photosynthetic O2 evolution generally was inhibited at low water potentials (psiw) but more in sunflower leaves than in Fucus fronds at the same psiw [14].
• The seaweed Fucus serratus is hypothesized to have evolved in the North Atlantic and present populations are thought to reflect recolonization from a southern refugium since the last glacial maximum 18 000-20 000 years bp [15].
• Anti-peptic activity was observed with this and other sulfated polysaccharides such as dextran sulfate, carrageenan, and Fucus fucoidan [11].
• Concentrations of cadmium and other metals in Fucus vesiculosus L. and Fontinalis dalecarlica Br. Eur. from the northern Baltic Sea and the southern Bothnian Sea [16].

Gene context of Fucus

• The extracts from two brown algae, Fucus evanescens and Pelvetia babingtonii, yielded 59 and 58% decrease in the recombinant DHOD activity, respectively, at the concentration of 50 microg/ml [17].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Fucus

• Commercial crude fucoidan (Sigma) from the brown seaweed Fucus vesiculosus was fractionated into its polysaccharide components by gel filtration and anion-exchange chromatography to clarify the structure-anticoagulant activity relationship [18].

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