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Evaluation of the Anti-angiogenic Effect of B-glucan Extracted from P. eryngii

      This study was conducted to investigate the effect of -glucan extracted from the medicinal mushroom pleurotus eryngii as an anti-angiogenic and anti-tumor factor. Samples of dried mushroom Pleurotus eryngii were collected from Ministry of Agriculture/Department of Organic Farming in Baghdad. The -glucan was extracted from the mushroom samples using hot water extraction method. The

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