Table 1.
In vitro antioxidant activity of ethyl acetate (EtOAC), methanol (MeOH) and aqueous (AQ) extracts of P. rimosus (Pr), G. lucidum (Gl), P. florida (Pf), and P. pulmonarius (Pp).
| Extracts | IC50 (µg/ml) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Super oxide scavenging | Nitric oxide scavenging | Hydroxyl radical scavenging | Lipid peroxidation inhibiting | |
| EtOAc | 22.0 ± 1.0 | 438.0 ± 21.6 | 68.0 ± 4.1 | 162 ± 7.0 |
| (Pr) | (Pr) | (Pr) | (Pr) | |
| — | — | 530.0 ± 29.4 | 496.0 ± 4.7 | |
| (Pf) | (Pf) | (Pf) | (Pf) | |
| MeOH | 25.3 ± 1.2 | 126.7 ± 12.6 | 93.0 ± 10.3 | 282 ± 12.8 |
| (Pr) | (Pr) | (Pr) | (Pr) | |
| 152.5 ± 2.5 | — | 560.0 ± 0.1 | 873.5 ± 7.2 | |
| (Gl) | (Gl) | (Gl) | (Gl) | |
| — | — | 476.7 ± 24.6 | 960.0 ± 10.0 | |
| (Pp) | (Pp) | (Pp) | (Pp) | |
| — | — | 263.3 ± 24.9 | 320.0 ± 10.0 | |
| (Pf) | (Pf) | (Pf) | (Pf) | |
| AQ | 126.0 ± 5.1 | 31.0 ± 4.5 | 71.0 ± 4.7 | 318 ± 2.4 |
| (Pr) | (Pr) | (Pr) | (Pr) | |
| 475.0 ± 25.0 | — | 140.0 ± 2.0 | — | |
| (Gl) | (Gl) | (Gl) | (Gl) | |
| — | — | 263.3 ± 24.9 | — | |
| (Pf) | (Pf) | (Pf) | (Pf) | |
Values are mean ± SD, n = 3. Names of mushrooms included in the parenthesis.