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Full Screen- Title
- Declaration
- Certificate
- Acknowledgement
- Abstract
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- 1. Review of literature
- 1.1. Mushroom
- 1.2. Ganoderma lucidum
- 1.3. Tumor
- 1.4. Cancer
- 1.6. Biological effects of radiation
- 1.7. Radioprotectors
- 1.8. Free radicals
- 1.9. Generation of free radicals in biological systems
- 1.10. The role of ROS in normal physiology
- 1.11. Free radical damage to biomolecules
- 1.13. ROS and inflammatory diseases
- 1.14. ROS and Cancer
- 1.15. Antioxidants
- 1.16. Mechanism of action of antioxidants
- 2. Materials and Methods
- 3. Isolation of Total triterpenes from the fruiting bodies of Ganoderma lucidum
- 4. In vitro and in vivo antioxidant activity of Total triterpenes
- 5. Anti-inflammatory activity of Total triterpenes
- 6. Anti-tumor and apoptotic activity of Total triterpenes
- 7. Anti-carcinogenic activity of Total triterpenes
- 8. Effect of Total triterpenes on radiation induced oxidative damage and genotoxicity
- 9. Effect of Total triterpenes against radiation induced DNA damage and apoptosis in vitro
- 10 Toxicity studies of Total triterpenes from Ganoderma lucidum
- Summary and Conclusions
- Bibliography