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Bellini,Marilanda Ferreira; Cabrioti,Leonardo Neves; Terezan,Ana Paula; Jordão,Berenice Quinzani; Ribeiro,Lúcia Regina; Mantovani,Mário Sérgio. |
Functional food investigations have demonstrated the presence of substances that could be beneficial to human health when consumed. However, the toxic effects of some substances contained in foods have been determined. Reported medicinal and nutritive properties have led to the extensive commercialization of the basidiomycete fungi Agaricus blazei Murrill (sensu Heinemann), also known as Agaricus brasiliensis Wasser et al., Agaricus subrufescens Peck or the Brazilian medical mushroom (BMM). Different methanolic extract fractions (ME) of this mushroom were submitted to the cytokinesis-block micronucleus (CBMN) clastogenic assay and the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase locus (HGPRT) assay for gene mutation, both using Chinese hamster ovary... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Agaricus blazei; Hgprt locus; Micronucleus. |
Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572008000100021 |
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