Open AccessExtracts from Flammulina velutipes inhibit the adhesion of pathogenic fungi to epithelial cells
Author(s) -
Svetlana Kashina,
Lérida Liss Flores Villavicencio,
Marco Balleza,
Gloria Barbosa Sabanero,
Vı́ctor Tsutsumi,
Myrna Sabanero López
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
pharmacognosy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-4836
pISSN - 0974-8490
DOI - 10.4103/0974-8490.178648
Subject(s) - flammulina , antifungal , traditional medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , botany , medicine , mushroom
Recently, extracts from natural sources have been tested for their antifungal properties. In this aspect, Flammulina velutipes extracts possess a significant amount of branch-chained carbohydrates with mannose moieties that, hypothetically, can reduce the adhesion.