Isolation of bioactive metabolites from marine sponges aaptos aaptos and celtodoryx girardae

Abstract

In this study, samples from Aaptos aaptos collected from the coastal waters of Terengganu, Malaysia, were investigated for antibacterial (disc diffusion method), antioxidant (DPPH free radical scavenging method), antiviral (neutral red uptake method) and cytotoxicity (MTT method) as well as the study of mechanism of cancer cell death.