Dewa mushroom is a saprophytic that can function as medicine, namely antihypertensive, antibacterial, anticancer, immunostimulant, anticholesterol, antiviral, and antioxidant. The content of secondary metabolites terpenoids, alkaloids, phenols have antibacterial activity. extract was obtained by stepwise extraction with hexane, dichloromethane, ethylacetate solvents. Testing activity diffusion ...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate acetylcholinesterase (AChE), butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) and antityrosinase activities of extracts from ten Piper species namely; P. caninum, P. lanatum, P. abbreviatum, P. aborescens, P. porphyrophyllum, P. erecticaule, P. ribesioides, P. miniatum, P. stylosum, and P. majusculum. METHODS Anticholinesterase and antityrosinase activities were e...

Identification and detection of dendritic spines in neuron images are of high interest in diagnosis and treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders (e.g., Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's diseases, and autism). In this paper, we have proposed a novel automatic approach using wavelet-based conditional symmetric analysis and regularized morphological shared-weight neural networks (RMSNN) ...

In our efforts to find new whitening agent materials, we focused on wood of Artocarpus heterophyllus which is anti melanogenesis. By activity-guided fractionation of A. heterophyllus wood extract, norartocarpetin and artocarpesin were isolated which inhibited both mushroom tyrosinase activity and melanin formation in B16 melanoma cells. This compound is a strong candidate as a remedy for hyperp...

2-Hydroxytyrosol (2-HT), originally reported as a synthetic compound, was isolated for the first time as a fungal metabolite. 2-HT was found to inhibit mushroom tyrosinase with an IC50 value of 13.0 µmol/L. Furthermore, 2-HT dose-dependently inhibited tyrosinase activity (IC50, 32.5 µmol/L) in the cell-free extract of B16 melanoma cells and α-melanocyte stimulating hormone (α-MSH)-stimulated me...

We investigated a total of 335 samples of Korean native mushroom extracts as part of our lipoxygenase (LOX) inhibitor screening program. Among the mushroom-methanolic extracts we investigated, 35 exhibited an inhibitory activity greater than 30% against LOX at a concentration of 100 µg/mL. Especially, Collybia maculata, Tylopilus neofelleus, Strobilomyces confusus, Phellinus gilvus, P. linteus,...

Agaricus blazei Murill is an edible mushroom of the Basidiomycetes family, which has been found to contain a number of compounds with antitumor properties, such as proteoglycans and ergosterol. In the present investigation, we show that the commercial mushroom product Andosan, which contains 82.4% Agaricus blazei Murill, together with medicinal mushrooms Hericium erinaceus (14.7%) and Grifola f...

The volatile oil from Boletopsis leucomelas (Pers.) Fayod was extracted by hydrodistillation with diethylether, and the volatile components of the oil were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The oil contained 86 components, representing 87.5% of the total oil. The main components of the oil were linoleic acid (15.0%), phenylacetaldehyde (11.2%), and palmitic acid (9.4%). Furtherm...

Medicinal mushrooms have an established history of use in traditional therapies. Modern clinical practice in Asian countries continues to rely on mushroom derived bioactive compounds. Medicinal effects have been demonstrated for many traditionally used mushrooms. The use of mushrooms extract and their bioactive compounds as antioxidants is becoming increasingly popular and could bring diverse p...

Lignosus rhinocerus is a macrofungus that belongs to Polyporaceae and is native to tropical regions. This highly priced mushroom has been used as folk medicine to treat diseases by indigenous people. As a preliminary study to develop a culture method for edible mushrooms, the cultural characteristics of L. rhinocerus were investigated in a range of culture media under different environmental co...