Mushrooms are reported to possess antitumor, antiviral, and antibacterial properties. These effects of mushrooms are suggested to be due to their ability to modulate immune cell functions. However, a majority of these studies evaluated the effect of administering extracts of exotic mushrooms through parental routes, whereas little is known about the immunological effect of a dietary intake of w...

Nowadays, discharge of toxic heavy metals into the environment is anincreasing global concern. In light of this and that the per capita consumption of mushrooms has increased in Iran, the current study was carried out to investigate the levels and health-risk assessment of elements arsenic (As) and zinc (Zn) through consumption of button mushrooms marketed in Kermanshah city in 2016.In this des...

Background: Pesticides are one of the important sources of environmental pollution that influence human health. The aim of current study was to determine diazinon and benomyl residues levels in mushrooms grown in greenhouses. Methods: Mushroom samples were obtained from 10 active greenhouses of Hamadan Province, Iran, every 14 days from May 2014. The absorbance of diazinon and benomyl were me...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate antimicrobial activity of Ganoderma applanatum, Tricholoma giganteum and Bolbitius vitellinus. The methanolic extract of basidiocarps and mycelial mat of all the above mentioned mushrooms was analyzed. The methanolic extracts were tested against three Gram positive, six Gram negative bacteria and two fungal cultures. Out of three mushrooms Ganoderma ...

Extending the knowledge on secondary metabolites and the effect of solvent of extraction in mushrooms, We investigated five mushrooms species; two cultivated edible (Agaricus bisporus (brown) and Agaricus bisporus (white); and three wild medicinal edible mushrooms Trametes versicolor, Ganoderma applanatum and Fomes fomentarius for total phenolic, total flavonoid and condensed tannins content. T...

Twenty-nine mushrooms collected in the mountainous areas of Nepal were analyzed for antioxidant activity by different methods, including Folin-Ciocalteu, ORAC, ABTS, and DPPH assays. Intracellular H2O2-scavenging activity was also performed on HaCaT cells. The results showed that phenolic compounds are the main antioxidant of the mushrooms. Among studied samples, Inonotus andersonii, and Phelli...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the IgE-mediated pathogenesis of severe asthma presented by a patient only after handling shiitake (Lentinus edodes) mushrooms (SM). MATERIAL AND METHODS Skin tests were performed using in-house extracts from mushrooms that the patient usually handled, i.e., shiitake, porcini, oyster and black fungus mushroom varieties. Specific IgE to champ...

Vitamin D2 from irradiated edible mushrooms might present a possible dietary source of this vitamin, subject to its bioavailability. Having previously optimized a method for the conversion of ergosterol in mushrooms to vitamin D2, this paper examines the vitamin D-enriched mushrooms (Lentinula edodes) for their bioavailability of the vitamin, using an animal model. Thirty male Wistar rats were ...

Presence of the virus associated with La France disease was confirmed in the mushrooms collected from different farms located in Western Poland. Double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) was isolated from the mushrooms exhibiting a wide range of the disease symptoms including premature veil opening, brown-colored mushrooms, and loss of crop yield. The presence of dsRNA molecules (M1, M2, and L3) was confirme...

The following questions regarding the detection of psychoactive drugs in mushrooms are addressed: At what stage of the mushroom development can the psychoactive drugs psilocyn and psilocybin be identified, and what effect does light have on the growth of these mushrooms. To answer these questions, Psilocybe cyanescens Wakefield mushrooms were grown from their spores in a controlled setting. At ...