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22.5 Current status and future outlook

Ocean contributes a source of a diverse kind of organisms due to the varied envi-
ronment in diverse oceanic regions (Sanjeewa et al., 2016). However, marine waste
is a main serious trouble of the 21st century. Hence, this huge capacity of oceanic
organisms and their wastes may be utilized for the production of value-added pro-
ducts. One of the typical examples of marine-derived product is the fish oil, and
due to the presence of active pharmacological properties, marine pharmacology has
been emerged for the production of various types of drugs and medicines (Kim,
2014). Aquatic surroundings are an outstanding store house of new products, by
means of composition and substance appearance as usual global foodstuffs are not
fitting in this category. The ocean provide enormous opportunities to discover new
compounds as it has more than 13,000 molecules described out of which 3000 are
having active properties.

22.6 Conclusion

Marine atmosphere has developed into a potential source of natural products, mole-
cules, and drugs of therapeutic use. Presence of enormous diversity of organisms
gives more novel products. Scientists have come up with drugs of various catego-
ries out of which anticancer, antiinflammatory, analgesics, and antivirals are the
most important to mention. Many drugs from marine sources have a promising
effect on several chronic and unbeatable diseases such as cancer. They may prove
to open up a new chapter of making the treatment of chronic diseases cheaper and
successful. After identification, extraction, and large-scale production of promising
marine natural products of therapeutic uses, their marketing and commercial exploi-
tation potential is dependent on the results of preclinical and clinical data. The cur-
rent screening for active natural products should be increased along with a large
and rapid screening method. Several research institutes and universities are working
in this field to develop new moieties and train people to work in this area. The tech-
nology should be targeted optimally for drug research, approval, and launches. The
medical pharmacologists from India should consider taking up further research in
marine pharmacology to help our country in new drug developments.

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