3.1.3. Fucoidan biosensor:
For the manufacture of the drug delivery system, Kurosaki et al. (2009)
used fucoidan as a matrix material. Berger et al. (2010) has also used
fucoidan and dextran sulfate as a biomaterial for HGF sensor
coating. HGF has been attached specifically to sulfated polysaccharide
fucoidan for the identification of hepatocyte growth factor in the
serum-containing medium of a small bioreactor for culturing hepatocytes.
Fucoidan coated HGF biosensor has shown highest sensitivity and low-cost
alternative to the use of antibodies (Berger et al., 2010).