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Alginate and fucoidan are polysaccharides which can be found in the cellular wall and the intercellular matrix of brown seaweeds. Eisenia arborea is the second most abundant kelp in the west Mexican Pacific Coast [1, 2]. It is a potential resource of alginate and fucoidan [3, 4]. The fucoidan obtained from E. arborea has a high anticoagulant activity [5]. Most of the time, the criteria to select a seaweed as a resource to produce those compounds are the yield, physicochemical properties, and biological activities, as well as the variations within months and the part of the algae used. These variations are related to the dynamics of their environment [6]. The objective of this research was to describe the bimonthly variation of alginate and fucoidan from September 2013 to March 2014, under the hypothesis that there is a variation between months and also from the part of algae used, in alginate and fucoidan yield from the kelp E. arborea and the chemical and anticoagulant properties.

Palabras clave: alginate; Fucoidan; brown seaweed

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