Original Article

Bio-Prospecting of a Few Brown Seaweeds for Their Cytotoxic and Antioxidant Activities

Table 3

TPC of seven brown seaweeds expressed as GAE; mg g−1 of methanol extract (n = 3).

Seaweed speciesGAE; mg g−1 of total methanolic extract

Phaeophyceae
Dictyopteris australis13.37 ± 0.140
Dictyopteryis delicatula21.34 ± 0.428
Padina tetrastromatica25.29 ± 0.445
Sargassum marginatum13.19 ± 0.32
Spatoglossum aspermum14.13 ± 0.046
Spatoglossum variable14.85 ± 0.093
Stoechospermum marginatum20.04 ± 0.382

All the values are mean ± SD; SD: standard deviation significant at P < .001.