Antibacterial and anticancer activities of acetone extracts from in vitro cultured lichen-forming fungi.

Agnieszka FelczykowskaAlicja Pastuszak-SkrzypczakAnna PawlikKrystyna BoguckaAnna Herman-AntosiewiczBeata Guzow-Krzemińska

Published in: BMC complementary and alternative medicine (2017)

We showed that selected acetone extracts demonstrated a strong antimicrobial and anticancer effects that suggests that aposymbiotically cultured lichen-forming fungi can be a source of antibacterial and antiproliferative compounds.

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