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