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Phenolic extract from the fruiting body and spores of a medicinal mushroom - Ganoderma lucidum: investigating their antioxidant potential and antitumor cell growth inhibitory effects

Bibliographic Details
Summary:	Mushrooms are a source of bioactive compounds, some of them with antioxidant properties or with antitumour potential (1). Ganoderma lucidum is one of the most extensively studied mushrooms due to its medicinal properties, as functional food and as chemopreventive (2). Some of the pharmacological properties of its compounds (e.g. polysaccharides, glucoproteins, triterpenes and steroids) have been related to antitumor activity, including cell cycle arrest and induction of apoptosis (3). Nevertheless, the bioactive properties of its phenolic compounds remain unevaluated.
Main Authors:	Heleno, Sandrina A.
Other Authors:	Tavares, Catarina; Vaz, Josiana A.; Almeida, Gabriela M.; Martins, Anabela; Queiroz, Maria João R.P.; Vasconcelos, M. Helena; Ferreira, Isabel C.F.R.
Year:	2012
Country:	Portugal
Document type:	conference output
Access type:	open access
Associated institution:	Universidade Politécnica de Bragança
Language:	English
Origin:	Biblioteca Digital da UPB

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Summary:	Mushrooms are a source of bioactive compounds, some of them with antioxidant properties or with antitumour potential (1). Ganoderma lucidum is one of the most extensively studied mushrooms due to its medicinal properties, as functional food and as chemopreventive (2). Some of the pharmacological properties of its compounds (e.g. polysaccharides, glucoproteins, triterpenes and steroids) have been related to antitumor activity, including cell cycle arrest and induction of apoptosis (3). Nevertheless, the bioactive properties of its phenolic compounds remain unevaluated.

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