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Free radical-scavenging and inhibition of nitric oxide production by four grades of pine mushroom (Tricholoma matsutake Sing.)

  • Hyun Woo Lim
  • , Jung Hye Yoon
  • , Young Suk Kim
  • , Min Won Lee
  • , So Young Park
  • , Hyung Kyoon Choi

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Abstract

Fractions from methanol extracts of four grades of pine mushroom (Tricholoma matsutake Sing.) were evaluated for their free radical-scavenging and inhibition of nitric oxide production, and the underlying mechanisms were elucidated. The fractions from first-grade pine mushroom exhibited the highest degree of free radical-scavenging and inhibition of nitric oxide production among the various grades of mushroom tested, and free radical-scavenging and inhibition of nitric oxide production by the second-, third-, and fourth-grade mushroom fractions were successively lower. The degree of free radical-scavenging by each fraction decreased in the order ethyl acetate > butanol > diethyl ether > water. Inhibition of nitric oxide production by each fraction decreased in the order ethyl acetate > butanol > water. The ethyl acetate and butanol fractions of methanol-extracted pine mushroom samples exhibited potential anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory effects that might be attributable to phenolics or flavonoids.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1337-1342
Number of pages6
JournalFood Chemistry
Volume103
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by Grant No. R01-2004-000-10276-0 from the Basic research Program of the Korea Science & Engineering Foundation.

Keywords

  • Inhibition of nitric oxide production
  • Pine mushroom
  • Radical-scavenging activity
  • Total flavonoid content
  • Total phenolic content
  • Tricholoma matsutake sing.

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