The aim of the study is to examine in-vitro antioxidant and antimicrobial activity of the acetonic and methanolic extracts of the mushrooms Boletus aestivalis, Boletus edulis and Leccinum carpini. Antioxidant activity was evaluated by using free radical scavenging activity and reducing power. In addition, total content of phenol and flavonoid in extracts were determined as pyrocatechol equivale...

Tyrosinase is a key enzyme in melanin production. Therefore, tyrosinase inhibitors are used in cosmetic and medicinal industries to prevent or treat overproduction of melanin such as melasma, solar lentigo and post inflammatory melanoderma. Due to safety of natural whitening agents, in the present study, in-vitro anti-tyrosinase and in-vivo anti-melanogenesis activities of some selected red mac...

10-Phenyl-[11]-cytochalasans (4-6), together with three known derivatives (1-3), were isolated from the MeOH extract of the Indonesian mushroom Microporellus subsessilis by a bioassay-guided fractionation. The compounds 6 and 1-3 induced immotility in Artemia salina.

Pleurotus citrinopileatus, also known in Vietnam as golden oyster mushroom, is a food rich protein, fiber, essential amino acids, carbohydrates, water-soluble vitamins, and minerals. In particular, the composition of yellow mushrooms, there β -1.3 - glucan with high biological activity an active ingredient contributing to intense stimulation immunity. The study researched process extracting cit...

BACKGROUND The oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, is cultivated worldwide. It is one of the most appreciated mushrooms due to its high nutritional value. Immersion of the substrate in hot water is one of the most popular and worldwide treatment used for mushroom farmers. It is cheap and easy to implement. AIMS To compare the yields obtained during mushroom production of P. ostreatus using ...

AIMS This work aimed to screen the antimicrobial activity of aqueous methanolic extracts of 13 mushroom species, collected in Bragança, against several clinical isolates obtained in Hospital Center of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal. METHODS AND RESULTS Microdilution method was used to determine the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and the minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC...

Mushroom has gained popularity as prized table delicacy with high nutritive and medicinal value. Ergosterol is a biological precursor (a provitamin) to vitamin D2. The contents of vitamin D2 and sterols in some wild and cultivated mushrooms were determined. Vitamin D2 was determined using an HPLC method, including saponification and semipreparative normalphase HPLC purification Lv et al. [1]. C...

Pleurotus eryngii is a mushroom growing in the Bakhtiari province of Iran and is known as a mountain fungus. The fresh fungus is used as a food, and when dried its powder has been used as an anthelmintic drug. We decided to study the anthelmintic activity of P. eryngii on Hymenolepis nana (cestode) and Syphacia obvelata (nematode), using experimental animals. Water extract of P. eryngii wa...

BACKGROUND Agaricus blazei Murill (AbM) is an edible Brazilian mushroom that has been used in traditional medicine for a range of diseases. It has been shown to have anti-infection and anti-tumor properties in the mouse, which are due to induction of Th1 responses. On the other hand, IgE-mediated allergy is induced by a Th2 response. OBJECTIVE Since according to the Th1/Th2 paradigm an increa...