Mushrooms

Toxic mushrooms

If you have a problem, no matter how large or small, Current Biology's 'agony aunt' Amber can help. Dear Amber, I pioneered a wonderful, elegant technique that everyone used, and for a while they all looked up to me. Now, a new method has superseded mine, and I'm no longer considered important. What can I do? Dear Technical, Rejoice, science has progressed. It's left you behind, and that's too ...

Medicinal Mushrooms

Since beginning of mankind nature is the most important source of medicines. Bioactive compounds produced by living organisms can be used directly as drugs or as lead compounds for drug development. Besides, the natural material can be used as crude drug for preparation of powder or extracts. Plants have traditionally been used as a source of most medical systems and as such herbal medicines co...

Antioxidants in wild mushrooms.

Maintenance of equilibrium between free radical production and antioxidant defences (enzymatic and non enzymatic) is an essential condition for normal organism functioning. When this equilibrium has a tendency for the production of free radicals we say that the organism is in oxidative stress. In this situation, excess free radicals may damage cellular lipids, proteins and DNA, affecting normal...

Vitamin D4 in Mushrooms

An unknown vitamin D compound was observed in the HPLC-UV chromatogram of edible mushrooms in the course of analyzing vitamin D(2) as part of a food composition study and confirmed by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry to be vitamin D(4) (22-dihydroergocalciferol). Vitamin D(4) was quantified by HPLC with UV detection, with vitamin [(3)H] itamin D(3) as an internal standard. White button, ...

Nutriceuticals from Mushrooms