Sugar constituents and blood-anticoagulant activities of fucose-containing sulfated polysaccharides in nine brown seaweed species.

Fucose-containing sulfated polysaccharide (SPS) fractions were prepared from 85% methanol-treated materials of nine different species of brown seaweeds. They were extracted with diluted hydrochloric acid (pH 2) at room temperature and the extracts fractionated with aqueous 3% cetylpyridinum chlor…