Medicinal mushrooms: Towards a new horizon

Ganeshpurkar, A.; Rai, G.; Jain, A. P.

doi:10.4103/0973-7847.70904

Review ArticlePharmacognosy ReviewsVol. 4 | Issue 8 | 2010 | pp. 127–135Open access

Medicinal mushrooms: Towards a new horizon

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¹ Department of Pharmacology, Shri Ram Institute of Technology- Pharmacy, In front of ITI, Madhotal, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh – 482 002, INDIA.

Correspondence: A. P. Jain
Department of Pharmacology, Shri Ram Institute of Technology- Pharmacy, In front of ITI, Madhotal, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh – 482 002, INDIA.
Email: dralokpaljain@gmail.com

Published:: Oct 21, 2010
Received:: Mar 23, 2010
DOI:: 10.4103/0973-7847.70904

How to cite

Ganeshpurkar, A., Rai, G., & Jain, A. P. (2010). Medicinal mushrooms: Towards a new horizon. Pharmacognosy Reviews, 4(8), 127–135. https://doi.org/10.4103/0973-7847.70904

Abstract

The arising awareness about functional food has created a boom in this new millennium. Mushrooms are widely consumed by the people due to their nutritive and medicinal properties. Belonging to taxonomic category of basidiomycetes or ascomycetes, these mushrooms possess antioxidant and antimicrobial properties. They are also one of the richest source of anticancer and immunomodulating agents. Thus these novel myochemicals from these mushrooms are the wave of future.

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Title	Medicinal mushrooms: Towards a new horizon
Authors	A. Ganeshpurkar; G. Rai; A. P. Jain
Affiliations	Department of Pharmacology, Shri Ram Institute of Technology- Pharmacy, In front of ITI, Madhotal, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh – 482 002, INDIA.
Corresponding author	dralokpaljain@gmail.com
Journal	Pharmacognosy Reviews
Volume / Issue	Vol. 4, Issue 8 (2010)