Content: 1. Marine-derived nutraceuticals : trends and prospects / Se-Kwon Kim and Isuru Wijesekara -- 2. Nutritional value of sea lettuces / Se-Kwon Kim and Ratih Pangestuti -- 3. Prospects and potential applications of seaweeds as neuroprotective agents / Se-Kwon Kim and Ratih Pangestuti -- 4. Chitosan-based biomaterials against diabetes and related complications / Se-Kwon Kim and Fatih Karadeniz -- 5. Nutraceutical benefits of marine sterols derivatives / Se-Kwon Kim and Quang Van Ta -- 6. Nutritional value, bioactive compounds, and health-promoting properties of abalone / Mahanama De Zoyza -- 7. Marine biopolymers in Asian nutraceuticals / Ngo Dang Nghia and Se-Kwon Kim -- 8. Marine natural antihypertensive peptides from styela clava having multi-functions of ace inhibition and no production in endothelial cells / Seok-Chun Ko, Se-Kwon Kim and You-Jin Jeon -- 9. Beneficial effects of marine natural products in auto-immune diseases / Mi Eun Kim ... [et al.] -- 10. Extraction of nutraceuticals from shrimp by-products / Trang Si Trung and Willem Frans Stevens -- 11. Fucoidan : a potential ingredient of marine nutraceuticals / Se Kwon Kim, Thanh-Sang Vo and Dai-Hung Ngo -- . 12. Chitosan for body weight management : current issues and future directions / Soon Kong Yong and Wong Tin Wui -- 13. Prospects of Indonesian uncultivated macroalgae for anticancer nutraceuticals / Hari Eko Irianto and Ariyanti Suhita Dewi -- 14. Active ingredients from marine microorganisms for modern nutraceuticals / Se-Kwon Kim and Pradeep Dewapriya -- 15. Potent anticancer actions of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids of marine nutraceuticals / Kaipeng Jing and Kyu Lim -- 16. Chitosan application in dentistry / Yoshihiko Hayashi ... [et al.] -- 17. Edible marine invertebrates : a promising source of nutraceuticals / Se-Kwon Kim and Himaya S.W.A. -- 18. Chitosan and its derivatives : potential use as nutraceuticals / Jae-Young Je and Se-Kwon Kim -- 19. Marine sulfated polysaccharides with an unusual regular inhibitors-independent anticoagulant mechanism / Bianca F. Glauser, Vitor H. Pomin, Paulo A.S. Mourao -- 20. Enzymatic production of n-acetyl-d-glucosamine using the enzyme from the liver of squid / Masahiro Matsumiya -- 21. High density chitin-chitosan production and health benefits / Siswa Setyahadi -- 22. Antioxidant effects of marine food-derived functional ingredients / Se-Kwon Kim, Dai-Hung Ngo and Thanh-Sang Vo -- 23. Biological and biomedical applications of marine nutraceuticals / Janaka Vidanarachchi, Maheshika S. Kurukulasuriya and W.M.N.M. Wijesundara -- 24. Fucoidans from marine brown macroalgae : isolation, identification and potential biological activities / Yasantha Athukorala and Yvonne V. Yuan