Anti-inflammatory activity of a sulfated polysaccharide isolated from an enzymatic digest of brown seaweed in RAW 264.7 cells.

Background/objectives: is an edible brown alga that grows in the subtidal zone as an annual species along the coasts of South Korea, China, and Japan. Recently, an extreme amount of moved into the coasts of Jeju Island from the east coast of China, which made huge economic and environmental loss to the Jeju Island. Thus, utilization of this biomass becomes a big issue with the local authorities.