ABSTRACT

Medicinal mushrooms comprise powerful tools for new pharmaceutical products. Traditional folk medicine and ethnomycolgy contains many natural compounds are the important source of bioactive compounds. Many basidiomycetes mushrooms contain biologically active polysaccharides, triterpenoids, lignins, sterols in fruit bodies, cultured mycelium and culture broth. It is also understood that the mushroom may be a potential source of therapeutically useful compounds. The current review states the various mushrooms and their bioactive metabolites with some pharmacological potential which could be the potential source of medicinal compounds in future. Keywords: Medicinal mushrooms, pharmacological potential, nutraceuticals, bioactive metabolites
Publication date: 01/02/2020

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2020/9.2.4916