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International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms

ISSN for PRINT: 1521-9437

Institutional price:	$538.00
Issues per year:	4

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2001, Volume3

76 pages

Issue price - $128.00

Ganoderma lucidum (Curt.: Fr.) P. Karst. and G. lipsiense (Batsch) Atk. Do Not Induce Micronuclei in Cultured Human Lymphocytes

Marie-Daniele Steinmetz
Laboratoire de Botanique, Cryptogamie et Biologie Cellulaire, Faculte de Pharmacie, 27 bd Jean Moulin-13385 Marseille Cedex 05, France

Jean-Pierre Rascol
Laboratoire de Botanique, Phytochimie et Mycologie, Faculte de Pharmacie, 15 Avenue Charles-Flabault-34060 Montpellier, France

Irene Sari-Minodier
Laboratoire de Biogenotoxicologie et Mutagenese Environnementale (UPRES EA-1784), Faculte de Medecine, 27 bd Jean Moulin-13385 Marseille Cedex 05, France

Thierry Orsiere
Laboratoire de Biogenotoxicologie et Mutagenese Environnementale (UPRES EA-1784), Faculte de Medecine, 27 bd Jean Moulin-13385 Marseille Cedex 05, France

Claude Andary
Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Montpellier 1.15 Av. Ch. Flahault, 34060, Montpellier Cedex 2, France

Patrick Regli
Laboratoire de Botanique, Cryptogamie et Biologie Cellulaire, Faculte de Pharmacie, 27 bd Jean Moulin-13385 Marseille Cedex 05, France

Alain Botta
Laboratoire de Biogenotoxicologie et Mutagenese Environnementale (UPRES EA-1784), Faculte de Medecine, 27 bd Jean Moulin-13385 Marseille Cedex 05, France

ABSTRACT

Two Ganoderma species (G. lucidum and G. lipsiense, Ganodermatales) are regarded as popular remedies in Chinese and Japanese traditional medicine and their effectiveness seems to be reasonably acceptable. The cytokinesis-blocked micronucleus assay performed in vitro on human lymphocytes for several concentrations of crude extracts shows that these two mushroom species do not exhibit genotoxic properties (clastogenicity and/or aneugenicity). Moreover, no cytotoxic effect was detected at any dose.