Literature

There have been reported wide scope of extraordinary biological effects related with Phlorotannins by many independent research groups.

Numerous studies indicate that the key biochemical principles responsible for such effects depend on their activities to regulate inflammation, to enhance circulation and to lower oxidative stress.

The topics covered in the area of life science are getting amazingly broad indicating the wide application potential of Phlorotannins in health-care industry. The research topics related with them include: allergy, antioxidation, brain, cancer, circulation, inflammation/pain/arthritis, metabolisc syndroms, microbiology, skin and others.

Since 1985, discovery of several eckols, the most physiologically notable class of phlorotannins have been published by German and Japanese scientists, the number of papers in this field of life science starts to increase from the beginning of this century and it is increasing year by year with a big jump around 2006