Dieckol, a rhizomycin found in some brown algae species, has antimicrobial, anticancer, antioxidant, antiaging, antidiabetic, and neuroprotective effects, ameliorates acute hearing loss, and inhibits cell proliferation through cell cycle arrest in human tracheal fibroblasts via Hs680.Tr.

4-Decanol, a compound isolated from the roots of Valeriana jatamansi Jones and Epilobium angustifolium L., may have anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activities.

BMY-21502 is a potential cognitive enhancer that shows anti-hypoxia effects in the KCN-hypoxia model, delays the decay of hippocampal synaptic enhancement in vitro, and can be used to study Alzheimer's disease.