Therapeutic Mushrooms for Diabetes Mellitus (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

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This new book provides valuable insight into the role of mushrooms in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. Mushrooms are enriched with various bioactive constituents with antidiabetic efficacy such as polysaccharides, terpenes, sterols, etc. The extracts as well as bioactive constituents through different mechanisms exhibit antidiabetic action. Medicinal mushrooms such as Ganoderma lucidum, Innotus obliquus, Grifola frondosa, Phellinus species, etc. are considered in this volume for their beneficial qualities toward the mitigation of the disease. The volume considers mushroom powders, their extracts, and their bioactive components for the management of diabetic syndrome. It presents various in vitro, in vivo, and clinical studies on lowering hyperglycemia and other diabetes associated secondary abnormalities as well as provides information regarding the mushroom-based antidiabetic market products.

The first part of the book presents information on diabetes mellitus, its causes, available treatments, natural resources for its management, and history of the use of mushrooms especially against diabetes. The book goes on to highlight the presence of bioactive constituents of antidiabetic mushrooms, the mechanisms of action of these antidiabetic mushroom components, and in vitro and gestational diabetes mellitus studies performed using antidiabetic mushrooms. The book's last chapters put emphasis on in vivo studies and clinical trials done using antidiabetic mushrooms and the available antidiabetic market products of mushrooms.

Shedding light on the use of mushrooms against diabetes, this volume, Therapeutic Mushrooms for Diabetes Mellitus: Current Evidences and Future Scope, will be valuable for academicians, research scholars, medicos, pharmaceutical professionals, and faculty and students studying medicinal plants in the fight against disease.