Effect of photosensitizer aganist anti-red tide substances from korea seaweed extracts

Many bioactive photosensitizers have been isolated from plants and some of theses possess antiviral activities which, depend on UVA(320-400nm) and visible light. Many complex quinonoids have been isolated from plants and recently some of them, such as hypericin and hypocrellin, have been shown to possess light-dependent antiviral activities. these compounds only exert their desired biological activities in the presence of long wavelength ultra-violet UVA but these activities are also strongly influenced b chemical structure(Hudson et al, 1995). the importance of light in the use of certain medicinal plant extracts has been appreciated, if not understood, for centuries. Also, many seaweed extracts will effect photo(UVA, visible light) for algicidal activity. (omitted)