Hence, pharmaceutical and food domains have common interest to obtain new natural bioactive components which can be used as drugs, functional food ingredients, or nutraceuticals (Joana Gil-Chávet et al. 2013).
Flax (Linum usitatissimum) is a potential source of many bioactive components that can be found in its oil and fibers, but also in the seedcake, which is rich in antioxidants.
These data suggest that GP, which contains low dosages of resveratrol in combination with other bioactive components, can inhibit the Wnt pathway in vivo and that this effect is confined to the normal colonic mucosa.
Next to the existing options of treatment (mostly correlated to serious side effects), bioactive components of algae can be a potential alternative.
Today, by-products generated from the agro-industrial practices are considered a key source of bioactive and functional components, that can be used for their nutritional and added value properties.
They are thought to be part of a wide-ranging form of inter-cellular communication that function by carrying bioactive components and signaling molecules, which can be released into target cells, in many instances, altering the function of those cells [ 22].
As the main bioactive component of A. oxyphylla, polysaccharides can be used to systematically evaluate A. oxyphylla quality.
Assuming that GLGPG is the only bioactive component in RHP powder, it can be deduced from the IC50 values given in Table 1 that RHP needs to contain ~3% of GLGPG.
Assuming no strong synergy among all components in the extract, it can be implied that the bioactive component(s) in these fractions could be far more potent than the standard reference drugs and so merits their enrichment and further characterization.
