%0 Journal Article %T Marine organisms: an alternative source of potentially valuable natural products %A Kelecom %A Alphonse %J Mem¨®rias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz %D 1991 %I Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Minist¨¦rio da Sa¨²de %R 10.1590/S0074-02761991000600024 %X this paper recalls the outcoming of marine natural products research and reviews a selection of marirne bioactive metabolites in current use together with promising trends in marine pharmacology. %K bioactivities %K algae %K invertebrates %K fishes. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0074-02761991000600024&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en