Hypoglycemic Activity of Polysaccharide from Fruiting Bodies of the Shaggy Ink Cap Medicinal Mushroom, Coprinus comatus (Higher Basidiomycetes), on Mice Induced by Alloxan and Its Potential Mechanism

Int J Med Mushrooms. 2015;17(10):957-64. doi: 10.1615/intjmedmushrooms.v17.i10.50.

Abstract

Three polysaccharide fractions from fruiting bodies of Coprinus comatus-CC30, CC60, and CC80-are obtained by water extraction and ethanol precipitation with ethanol percentages of 30%, 60%, and 80%, respectively. The hypoglycemic activity of the three fractions was tested based on mice with alloxan-induced diabetes. Results indicate that fraction CC60 is the most effective fraction in water extract from C. comatus; it can remarkably reduce the blood glucose concentration in 120 min at a dosage of 1000 mg/kg administered orally. It also presents a long-term hypoglycemic effect during 21 days of injection at the same dosage. This polysaccharide fraction provide a novel path to improve the treatment currently used for patients with diabetes. The data on mice spleen lymphocyte proliferation and protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B)-inhibiting activity of fractions indicate that the hypoglycemic activity of CC60 is possibly activated through immune stimulation, not PTP1B inhibition.

MeSH terms

  • Alloxan
  • Animals
  • Coprinus / chemistry*
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental / drug therapy*
  • Fruiting Bodies, Fungal / chemistry
  • Hypoglycemic Agents / pharmacology*
  • Lymphocytes / drug effects
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred ICR
  • Polysaccharides / pharmacology
  • Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 1 / metabolism
  • Spleen / cytology

Substances

  • Hypoglycemic Agents
  • Polysaccharides
  • Alloxan
  • Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 1
  • Ptpn1 protein, mouse