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Manyseaweeds have commonly been used as food among the Japanese people. Certain seaweeds have long been used in traditional Chinese herbal medicine in the treatment of cancer. We previously demonstrated that a nondialyzable fraction from some common seaweeds in Japan, i.e., Sargassum fulvellum, S. kjellmanianum, Laminaria angustata, and L. angustatavar.longissima, showed marked inhibition of the growth of Sarcoma-180 cells subcutaneously implanted into mice, and each fraction was found to consist primarily of polysaccharide (Yamamoto, et al 1974, 1981).
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Yamamoto, I., Takahashi, M., Tamura, E., Maruyama, H., Mori, H. (1984). Antitumor activity of edible marine algae: Effect of crude fucoidan fractions prepared from edible brown seaweeds against L-1210 leukemia. In: Bird, C.J., Ragan, M.A. (eds) Eleventh International Seaweed Symposium. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6560-7_22
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