Higher fungi new-old source of raw materials for pharmaceutical industry | Vise gljive novi - stari izvor sirovina za farmaceutsku industriju
2008
Klaus, A. | Niksic, M. | Savic, M. | Despotovic, S. | Vukosavljevic, P., Univerzitet u Beogradu, Beograd - Zemun (Serbia). Poljoprivredni fakultet, Institut za prehrambenu tehnologiju i biohemiju
Mushrooms are a popular and valuable functional food, low in calories and high in minerals, essential amino acids, vitamins and fibers. More than 270 mushroom species are high valuable nutritive food, but they also have different pharmaceutically effects, what classify them in the group of the medicinal mushrooms. These mushrooms show immunomodulating and anticancerous properties, they act like antioxidants and antihypertensive substances, have ability to lower cholesterol and protect the liver, possess antiinflammatory, antidiabetic, antiviral and antimicrobial properties. Medicinal mushrooms are very reach sources of new biomedicinal molecules which can be used in treating different disorders in human organism. Among these biomolecules the most important are protein bounded polysaccharides which are made by basidiomycetes, thanks to their extraordinary properties these biomolecules are classified like antitumorous substances by American National Cancer Institute.
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