MEDICINAL MUSHROOM BIOACTIVES: POTENTIAL SOURCES FOR ANTI-CANCER DRUG DEVELOPMENT
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https://doi.org/10.22159/ijap.2020.v12s4.40103Keywords:
Medicinal mushroom, Drug developmentAbstract
Mushrooms represent a major yet largely untapped source of therapeutically useful bioactive compounds. Despite mushrooms were in use since antiquity in traditional folk medicine attempts to isolate their bioactive components and to elucidate their medicinal properties have started only recently. Many pharmaceutical substances with unique properties were recently extracted from mushrooms and made their way all over the world. A number of medicinal mushrooms have been identified to possess anticancer effects recently. Some of the well-known examples are Lentinan from Lentinus edodes, Krestin from Trametes versicolor, Ganopoly from Ganoderma lucidum and Schizophyllan from Schizophyllum commune. We investigated the anticancer activities of a number of medicinal mushrooms in our laboratory. Some of the recent scientific evdences on the anticancer activities of Ganoderma lucidum, Phellinus rimosus, and Fomitopsis pinicola are discussed in this short review.
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3. Janardhanan KK, Ajith TA. Developments in medicinal mushrooms: biology and therapeutic properties. Astral International Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, India; 2015. p. 19-34.
4. Smith J, Rowan N, Sullivan R. Medicinal mushrooms: their therapeutic properties and current medicinal usages with special emphasis on cancer treatment. Special report commissioned by Cancer Research UK; The University of Strathelyde in Glasgow; 2001.
5. Wasser SP. Current findings, future trends and unsolved problems in studies of medicinal mushrooms. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2010;89:1323-32.
6. Zhou X, Lin J, Yin Y, Zhao J, Sun X, Tang K. Ganodermataceae: natural products and their related pharmacological functions. Am J Chinese Med 2007;35:559-74.
7. Wasser SP. Reishi or ling zhi (Ganoderma lucidum)) encyclopedia diet supplement; 2005. p. 603-22.
8. Bao XF, Liu CP, Fang JN, Li XY. Structural and immunological studies of a major polysaccharide from spores of Ganoderma lucidum (Fr.) P. Karst. Cabohydrate Res 2001;332:67-74.
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10. Yuen TWM, Gohel MDI. Anticancer effects of Ganoderma lucidum: review of scientific evidence. Nutr Cancer 2005;53:11-7.
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18. Smina TP, Nith B, Devasagayam TPA, Janardhanan KK. Ganoderma lucidum total terpenes induce apoptosis in MCF-7 cells and attenuate DMBA induced mammary and skin carcinoma in experimental animals. Mutation RE/Genetic Tox Environ Mutag 2017;813:45-51.
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21. Konn S, Chu K, Feuer N, Phillips J, Choudhur M. Potent anticancer effects of bioactive mushroom extracts (Phellinus liteus) on a variety human cancer cells. J Clin Med Res 2015;7:76-82.
22. Zhu T, Guo J, Collins L, Kelly J, Xiao ZJ, Kim SH, et al. Phellinus linteus activate different pathways to induce apoptosis in prostate cancer cells. Br J Cancer 2007;96:583-90.
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26. Ajith TA, Janardhanan KK. Cytotoxic and antitumor activities of a polypore macrofungus, Phellinus rimosus (Berk) pilat. J Ethanopharmacol 2003;84:157-62.
27. Ajith TA, Janardhanan KK. Antimutagenic effect of Phellinus rimosus (Berk) Pilat against chemical induced mutation of histidine dependent Salmonella typhimurium strains. Food Chem Toxicol 2011;49:2676-80.
28. Meera CR, Janardhanan KK. Antitumor activity of a polysaccharide-protein complex isolated from a wood-rotting polypore macro fungus Phillinus rimosu s(Berk) Pilat. J Environ Path Oncol 2012;31:223-32.
29. Ajith TA, Janardhanan KK. Chemopreventive activity of macrofungus Phellinus rimosus against N-nitrosodimethylamine induced hepatocellular carcinoma in rat. J Exp Ther Oncol 2006;5:1-13.
30. Meera CR, Janrdhanan KK, Karunagaran D. Antiproliferative and apoptotic activities of the medicinal mushroom Phellinus rimosus (Agaricomycetes) on HCT116 human colorectal carcinoma cells. Inter J Med. Mushrooms 2018;20:935-45.
31. Rosecke J, Koing W. Constuents of various wood-rotting basidomycetes. Phytochemistry 2000;54:747-50.
32. Cheng J, Lin C, Lur H, Chen H, Lu M. Properties and biological functions of polysaccharides and ethanol extracts isolated from medicinal fungus, Fomitopsis pinicola. Proc Biochem 2008;43:829-34.
33. Wang, Cheng X, Wang P, Wang L, Ran J, Wang X, et al. Investigating migration and apoptotic effects of Fomitopsis pinicola chloroform extracton human colorectal cancer SW-480 cells. PloS One 2014;9:e101303.
34. Bishop KS. Characterization of extracts and anticancer activities of Fomitopsis pinicola. Nutrients 2020;12:609.
35. Patel S, Goyal A. Recent development in mushrooms as anticancer therapeutics: a review. 3 Biotech 2012;2:1-15.
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01-11-2020
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JANARDHANAN, K. K., RAVIKUMAR, K. S., & KARUPPAYIL, S. M. (2020). MEDICINAL MUSHROOM BIOACTIVES: POTENTIAL SOURCES FOR ANTI-CANCER DRUG DEVELOPMENT. International Journal of Applied Pharmaceutics, 12(4), 40–45. https://doi.org/10.22159/ijap.2020.v12s4.40103
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