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Medicinal mushrooms: Towards a new horizon

Pharmacognosy Reviews, 2010
The arising awareness about functional food has created a boom in this new millennium. Mushrooms are widely consumed by the people due to their nutritive and medicinal properties. Belonging to taxonomic category of basidiomycetes or ascomycetes, these mushrooms possess antioxidant and antimicrobial properties. They are also one of the richest source of
Ganeshpurkar, A., Rai, G., Jain, A. P.
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Submerged Culture of Mushrooms in Bioreactors – Challenges, Current State-of-the-Art, and Future Prospects

Food Technology and Biotechnology, 2007
Medicinal mushrooms have profound health-promoting benefits. Recently, a number of substances of mushroom origin have been isolated, identified and shown to have physiological activities, such as antitumor, immunomodulating, cardiovascular ...
Li-Wen Zhu, Hong-Mei Li, Dong-Sheng Li, Ya-Jie Tang   +3 more
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An Edible Mushroom With Medicinal Significance; Auricularia polytricha

Hittite Journal of Science and Engineering, 2016
Auricularia polytricha, also known as wood ear mushroom, is a macrofungus. The aim of study was to determine the antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of A. polytricha extracts with two different solutions. We used ethanol and distilled water as a solvent in order to prepare mushroom extracts.
AVCİ, Emre, CAGATAY, Gamze, AVCİ, Gulcin Alp, SUİCMEZ, Menderes, CEVHER, Sule Coskun   +4 more
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Medicinal Mushroom Biotechnology

Anatomy Physiology & Biochemistry International Journal
Since most of medicinal mushrooms are rare in nature production of fungal fruiting bodies using artificial cultivation in a form of farming has been intensively established during the last 40 years. Solid state cultivation of various medicinal mushroom mycelia in various types of bioreactors, suitable for veterinary use, appears slightly in last few ...
Marin Berovic*, Bojana Boh, Andrej Gregori   +2 more
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Nutritional and medicinal importance of mushrooms

Journal of Medicinal Plants Research, 2010
Mushrooms had long been used for medicinal and food purposes since decades. It is now increasingly recognized that correct diet, controls and modulates many functions of human body and consequently participates in the maintenance of state of good health, necessary to reduce the risk of many diseases. Modern pharmacological research confirms large parts
Ahmad Wani Bilal, H Bodha R, H Wani A
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Medicinal wood decay fungi on large old oaks in the Madonie Mountains (Sicily)

Italian Journal of Mycology
Periodic observations made on two 800-plus-year-old Quercus pubescens trees in the Madonie Mountains (Sicily) revealed the presence of two saprotroph and occasionally weak parasite fungi.
Fortunato Cirlincione, Giuseppe Venturella, Maria Letizia Gargano, Giulia Mirabile, Gaetano Balenzano, Raimondo Pardi, Valeria Ferraro   +6 more
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Nutritional and Medicinal Value of Specialty Mushrooms

Journal of Food Protection, 1990
Although the button mushroom ( Agaricus bisporus ) accounts for slightly over half of total world mushroom production, specialty mushrooms, e.g., shiitake ( Lentinula edodes ), straw ( Volvariella volvacea ), oyster ( Pleurotus spp.), and enokitake ( Flammulina velutipes ), are increasing in popularity. These species contain moderate quantities of good
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The Vitamin Profile of Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms: Bioactive Potential, Preventive Health Significance, and Applied Perspectives

Applied Sciences
Edible and medicinal mushrooms are widely studied for their bioactive compounds, yet their role as sources of essential vitamins remains inadequately defined and often overestimated.
Katarzyna Sułkowska-Ziaja, Katarzyna Kała, Mónika Fekete, Virág Zábó, Michał Kolisz, Jan Lazur, Bożena Muszyńska   +6 more
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Medicinal mushroom-derived compounds for managing neuro-gastrointestinal and physical symptoms in cancer patients: Mechanisms, clinical evidence, and future directions

Clinical Immunology Communications
Cancer patients experience a significant symptom burden that affects their quality of life. These include gastrointestinal, neurological, and physical side effects, which worsen fatigue and quality of life during conventional treatments like radiotherapy,
Jainu Ajit, Rebeka Ambrožič
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Wild and Cultivated Mushrooms Exhibit Anti-Inflammatory Effects Including Inhibition of Platelet Aggregation and Interleukin-8 Expression

Applied Microbiology
There are approximately 130 reported medicinal effects attributed to mushrooms. We investigated the anti-inflammatory effects of hot-water extracts of 66 wild and cultivated fungi species (both edible and poisonous) by analyzing the inhibition of ...
Hiroaki Yoshimoto, Noriko Miyazawa, Fumio Eguchi   +2 more
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