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Marine biodiversity as a new source of promising polysaccharides : innovative polysaccharides emerging from the marine biodiversity / Sylvia Colliec-Jouault, Corinne Sinquin, Agata Zykwinska and Christine Delbarre-Ladrat -- Applications of marine polysaccharides in food processing / Vazhiyil Venugopal -- The manufacture, characterization and uses of fucoidans from macroalgae / Fitton JH, Stringer DN, Karpiniec SS, Park AY -- Chemical and biological routes for the valorization of macroalgal polysaccharides / Valerie J. Rodrigues, Annaamma A. Odaneth -- Marine exopolysaccharides provide protection in extreme environments / Carla C. C. R. de Carvalho -- Structural mechanisms involved in mild acid hydrolysis of a defined tetrasaccharide-repeating sulfate fucan / Francisco F. Bezerra and Vitor H. Pomin -- Biosynthesis and extrusion of chitin nanofibers by diatoms / G.L. Rorrer -- The mucus of marine invertebrates : cnidarians, polychaetes and echinoderms as case studies / L. Stabili -- Biorefinery of unique polysaccharides from laminaria sp, kappaphycus sp, and ulva sp. : structure, enzymatic hydrolysis, and bioenergy from released monosaccharides / Mark Polikovsky, Alexander Golberg -- Fermentative production and application of marine microbial exopolysaccharides / Shweta Singh, Anjula Katoch, Rajwinder Kaur, Kulwinder Singh Sran, Bhupender Kumar, Anirban Roy Choudhury -- Marine polysaccharides : extraction techniques, structural determination and description of their biological activities / O. Ibraheem, O.M. Babatunde -- Fucoidan : a tool for molecular diagnosis and targeted therapy of cardiovascular diseases / M. Maire, L. Chollet, L. Rolland, D. Letourneur, C. Chauvierre, F. Chaubet -- Marine polysaccharides as promising source of biological activities : extraction and purification technologies, structure and activities / A. Mzibra, I. Meftah Kadmiri, H. EL Arroussi -- Microwave-assisted conversion of marine polysaccharides / Shuntaro Tsubaki, Ayumu Onda, Tadaharu Ueda, Masanori Hiraoka, Satoshi Fujii, Yuji Wada -- Role of polysaccharides from marine environment in metabolic disorders / Manigandan Venkatesan, Velusamy Arumugam, Rathinam Ayyasamy, Karthik Ramachadran, Subhapradha Namasivayam, Umamaheswari Sundaresan, Archunan Govindaraju, Saravanan Ramchandran -- Role of carbohydrate active enzymes (CAZymes) in production of marine bioactive oligosaccharides and their pharmacological applications / Md. Imran and Sanjeev C. Ghadi -- Microbial enzymes and potential use in algae's polysaccharides modifications / Daniela de Borba Gurpilhares, Lara Durães Sette, Adalberto Pessoa Jr -- Molecular modification of marine sulfated polysaccharides / Sutapa Biswas Majee, Dhruti Avlani, Gopa Roy Biswas -- Marine algae-degrading enzymes and their applications in preparation of marine oligosaccharides / Benwei Zhu, Limin Ning, Yun Sun, Zhong Yao -- Enzymatic technologies of chitin and chitosan / Suresh PV -- Enzymes to produce glycosaminoglycan-mimetics from marine polysaccharides / Christine Delbarre-Ladrat, Véronique Verrez-Bagnis, Sylvia Colliec-Jouault and Agata Zykwinska -- Production of value-added materials from alginate using alginate lyases and 4-deoxy-l-erythro-5-hexoseulose uronic acid-metabolic enzymes from alginolytic bacteria and marine gastropods / Takao Ojima, Ryuji Nishiyama, Akira Inoue.