Echinoderms Metabolites: Structure, Functions and Biomedical Perspectives 

 - Basel, Switzerland  MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute  2021 
 - 1 online resource (179 p.) 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> The materials published in the Special Issue reflect the real diversity of echinoderm metabolites and cover most of their specific classes and biomedical potential as antioxidant, antiviral, anticancer, and even anticoagulant preparations. The metabolites include sea urchin naphtoquinoid pigments and their semi-synthetic derivatives, sea cucumber triterpene glycosides, esters of polyhydroxysteroids from starfish, sea urchins free sterols, and sea cucumber fucosylated chondroitin sulfates. This Special Issue, "Echinoderm Metabolites: Structure, Functions, and Biomedical Perspectives", is a collection of articles about different scientific aspects concerning low molecular weight and biopolymer metabolites from echinoderms, including their isolation and chemical structures, biological activities, biosynthesis and evolution, biological functions, and obtaining of semi-synthetic derivatives of biologically active natural products. This Special Issue includes materials about sea urchin naphtoquinoid pigments and their semi-synthetic derivatives, sea cucumber triterpene glycosides, esters of polyhydroxysteroids from starfish, sea urchin free sterols, and sea cucumber fucosylated chondroitin sulfates. 
<br/><br/><br/>Creative Commons 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783036515939 9783036515946 books978-3-0365-1593-9 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.3390/books978-3-0365-1593-9  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Medicine and Nursing
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>5,8-dihydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone anticoagulant activity Aplysina sp. Buccinum sp. Ceramaster patagonicus Colochirus quadrangularis cytostatic activity cytotoxic activity echinamine A echinamine B echinochrome A Echinometra lucunter fatty acids fucosylated chondroitin sulfate gas chromatography glucose uptake glycoprotein gD herpes simplex virus type 1 Holothuria hilla kurilosides mass spectrometry molecular docking Montastraea cavernosa n/a natural products neuroblastoma Neuro-2a cells NMR spectra O-glucoside Paracaudina chilensis Pasiphaea tarda Phormosoma placenta polyhydroxysteroidal esters prostate cancer Pseudoanthomastus agaricus QSAR quadrangularisosides sea cucumber sea urchins soft agar assay starfish sterols Thenea muricata thioglucoside conjugates thiomethylglycoside Thyonidium kurilensis triterpene glycosides Vero cells wound healing assay