Studies on the Steroids of Marine Sponge

Sterols are essential components of all eukaryotic cells and were the first group of marine sponge natural products used in the taxonomic characterization of marine sponges. Thus, in the past decade there has been an increasing interest in sterols of marine sponge, which has led to the discovery of a large number of novel compounds. The use of a variety of separation techniques has demonstrated the complexity of the sterol components of marine extracts, up to 50 sterols from one species of organism. However, the quantity of each sterol