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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 24, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms242115596
Keywords
mushroom; metabolites; medicine; beta-glucan; terpenoids
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Medicinal mushrooms are potential sources of valuable medicines, possessing significant therapeutic properties and being used as medications for various diseases. They have a wide range of important biological activities and can be used as antioxidants, anti-inflammatory, anticancer, and antidiabetic agents.
Mushrooms are new potential sources of valuable medicines, long neglected because of difficulties experienced in their cultivation. There is a large variety of medicinal mushrooms which possess significant therapeutic properties and are used as medications for various diseases because they contain several novel highly bioactive components. Medicinal mushrooms can be identified based on their morphology, size, mass, and the color of the stalk, cap and spore, and attachment to the stalk. Medicinal mushrooms possess a variety of important biological activities and are used as antioxidants, hepatoprotectors, anticancer, antidiabetic, anti-inflammatory, antiaging, antiviral, antiparasitic, and antimicrobial agents, among others. This review provides a basic overview of the chemical scaffolds present in mushrooms and their therapeutic implications in the human body.
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