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Biological Activity: Fucoxanthinol, a carotenoid, is a deacetylated Fucoxanthin (HY-N2302) metabolite with oral activity, and inhibits rat pancreatic lipase with an IC₅₀ of 764 nM. Fucoxanthinol reduces expression of Bcl-2, Bcl-xL, survivin, XIAP, cIAP2, cyclin D1, cyclin D2, cyclin E, CDK4, CDK6, β-catenin, JunD, PPARγ, and induces GADD45α expression. Fucoxanthinol activates caspase-3, caspase-8, caspase-9, Nrf2/Keap1/ARE pathway, and inhibits activation of Akt, NF-κB, AP-1, PDPK1, GSK3β phosphorylation. Fucoxanthinol induces apoptosis, G0/G1 cell cycle arrest, inhibits cancer cell viability, proliferation, migration, invasiveness, tumour growth, adipocyte differentiation, oxidative stress, neurotoxicity, triglyceride absorption, angiogenesis, and obesity-induced inflammation. Fucoxanthinol can be used for the research of osteosarcoma, leukemia, lymphoma, adult T-cell leukemia, prostate cancer, colon cancer, breast cancer, hypertriglyceridaemia, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, obesity, insulin resistance, malignant melanoma, and type II diabetes^{[1][7][9][10][13][16][17]}.