Medicinal Value of Species of the Family Agaricaceae Cohn (Higher Basidiomycetes): Current Stage of Knowledge and ...(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The rapid growth of interest in medicinal mushrooms research is matched by the large number of disparate groups that currently publish in a wide range of publications.
The family Agaricaceae Cohn contains established biotechnological species as well as species potentially important for man. Cultivated culinary–medicinal species of the family Agaricaceae have been documented to contain biologically active compounds with various beneficial health effects.
The varying chemical nature, modes of action, and minor adverse effects of active principles derived from the representatives of the family possess a wealth of yet unexploited applications.
Johnson & Vilgalys, 1998: Phylogeny of Lepiota(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
DNA sequences were compared for the 5' end region of the nuclear encoded large subunit ribosomal RNA gene (25-28S RNA) from 55 ingroup and outgroup taxa.
Results from parsimony analysis are consistent with the exclusion of the tribe Cystodermateae (Cystoderma and Ripartitella) from the family Agaricaceae, and the retention of the tribes Lepioteae and Leucocoprineae.
The support for Coprinus section Comati to be within the Agaricaceae presents interesting taxonomic problems involving nomenclatural precedence and usage of commonly known groups including Agaricus, Coprinus,and Lepiota.
Calvin Henry Kauffman (1911) "Unreported Michigan Fungi for 1910, with outline keys of the common genera of Basidiomycetes and Ascomcetes" in Michigan Academy of Science Report 13 pp.
Calvin Henry Kauffman (1918) The Agaricaceae of Michigan 2 vol.
(Agaricaceae) of Michigan and the Great Lakes Region
The family Agaricaceae includes the genera Agaricus, and Lepiota.
In this guide other 'agaric' or gilled fungi are to be found under Amanitaceae, Coprinaceae, Cortinariales, Entolomataceae, Hygrophoraceae, Russulaceae, Strophariaceae and Tricholomataceae.
Picture galleries for each of these groups are all readily accessible via the Identification Guide index.
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SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to a method and a composition for potentiating insulin activity in a patient in need thereof, such as a hyperglycemia patient.
The invention also provides a composition comprising an insulin potentiating agent and a method of preparing the composition.
A preferred source for preparing IPA-containing extracts is mushrooms which bear basidia on their gills in the family of Agaricaceae such as Agaricus
Thesis: Family Agaricaceae (Fr.) Cohn of the Soviet Union
* A comparative study of the family Agaricaceae and the order Amanitales with the use of various methods and criteria serves as a model for greater clarification of general problems of systematics and phylogeny of Higher Basidiomycetes.
* The critical study of the family Agaricaceae of Ukraine, the former Soviet Union, Far East of Russia, Vietnam, a number of USA States and Israel are performed.
