A review on marine natural products and their application in modern medicine

Abstract

In recent years, drugs from natural sources are becoming important owing to their potency and less toxicity. Natural products from marine microorganisms and marine algae are one of the highly explored areas in natural product research. Plenty of marine natural product being isolated and is showing a wide array of biological activity. The present review focuses on pharmaceutically important marine natural products isolated from different microorganisms, marine invertebrates, variety of algae, and their application in modern medicine.