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The Role of Algae in Nutraceutical and Pharmaceutical Production

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Bioactive Natural products in Drug Discovery

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With over 300,000 species, algae provide a unique source of natural products, including therapeutic molecules. Alga adapts to different ecological niches and is one of the oldest living organisms on the planet Earth. Due to its robust and hardy nature, it has gained a lot of interest for exploration of medicinally important secondary metabolites having antiviral, antifungal, antibacterial, antioxidant, antitumor, antimalarial, and anti-inflammatory activity. Vitamins, carotenoids, fatty acids, polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), and sterols are few of the important phytochemicals produced from microalgae. Natural products obtained from different types of algae are important for drug discovery and serve as the basis of most of the medicines. This work describes the natural products obtained from algae and its biological potential as pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, animal and human feed supplements. Further, we have highlighted the commercial products obtained from algae and their therapeutic properties.

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Dr. Mannan would like to acknowledge DST-SERB for core research grant (EMR/2017/002299) funds vide sanction order SERB/F/10997/2018-2019.

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Gautam, S., Mannan, M.Au. (2020). The Role of Algae in Nutraceutical and Pharmaceutical Production. In: Singh, J., Meshram, V., Gupta, M. (eds) Bioactive Natural products in Drug Discovery. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1394-7_24

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