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and isolation, chemical characterization of their secondary metabolites, and evaluation for pharmacological activities, with mechanistic based potential therapeutic evidence, is still a big challenge for researchers, and therefore mushrooms still remain an area of great research potential to generate more research interest in pharmaceutical and toxicity studies.

The complex pharmacologic and nutraceutical potential of mushrooms may be integrated not only through inhibition of certain cancer-specific processes or targeted activation of tumor-specific apoptosis, but also through indirect actions such as immunomodulation, hepatoprotection, and antioxidation. Another research dimension of mushrooms is in studying the mechanisms of action and targets of the natural products and their derivatives for different therapeutic endpoints for proof of concepts in phototherapeutics.
