The group of Takumi SATO has shown that zonarol, a terpenoid hydroquinone from the brown seaweed Dictyopteris zonarioides, suppresses ulcerative colitis and inhibitis pancreatic lipase, providing a potential as a health food component.
Tokyo University of Technology news release, Nov. 20, 2014
Group at Tokyo University of Technology finds pancreatic lipase inhibition by a terpenoid from brown seaweed Dictyopteris zonarioides