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Nature’s Own Pharmacy: Mushroom-Based Chemical Scaffolds and Their Therapeutic Implications
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 s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10647524/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37958579 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms242115596 |
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author | Hassan, Mubashir Shahzadi, Saba Ransom, Richard F. Kloczkowski, Andrzej |
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description | 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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spelling | pubmed-106475242023-10-26 Nature’s Own Pharmacy: Mushroom-Based Chemical Scaffolds and Their Therapeutic Implications Hassan, Mubashir Shahzadi, Saba Ransom, Richard F. Kloczkowski, Andrzej Int J Mol Sci Review 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. MDPI 2023-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10647524/ /pubmed/37958579 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms242115596 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Hassan, Mubashir Shahzadi, Saba Ransom, Richard F. Kloczkowski, Andrzej Nature’s Own Pharmacy: Mushroom-Based Chemical Scaffolds and Their Therapeutic Implications |
title | Nature’s Own Pharmacy: Mushroom-Based Chemical Scaffolds and Their Therapeutic Implications |
title_full | Nature’s Own Pharmacy: Mushroom-Based Chemical Scaffolds and Their Therapeutic Implications |
title_fullStr | Nature’s Own Pharmacy: Mushroom-Based Chemical Scaffolds and Their Therapeutic Implications |
title_full_unstemmed | Nature’s Own Pharmacy: Mushroom-Based Chemical Scaffolds and Their Therapeutic Implications |
title_short | Nature’s Own Pharmacy: Mushroom-Based Chemical Scaffolds and Their Therapeutic Implications |
title_sort | nature’s own pharmacy: mushroom-based chemical scaffolds and their therapeutic implications |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10647524/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37958579 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms242115596 |
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