Fucoidan
Occurence, isolation & synthesis
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Occurrence
Fucoidan is isolated commercially from the brown algae
Fucus vesiculosus
, a common alga found of the coasts of the Northern Atlantic, the Pacific Ocean, and the Baltic Sea [2].