“…These include hepatoprotective (Lin et al, 1993(Lin et al, , 1995, antitumour (Maruyama et al, 1989;Sone et al, 1985), cytotoxic (Lin et al, 1991), antiinflammatory (Lin et al, 1993), antinociceptive (Koyama et al, 1997), platelet aggregation inhibitory (Shimizu et al, 1985;Tao and Peng, 1990), hypoglycaemic (Hikino et al, 1989;Kimura et al, 1988), cholesterol biosynthesis inhibitory (Komoda et al, 1989), cardiovascular/hypotensive (Kabir et al, 1988;Lee and Rhee, 1990), radioprotective Hsu et al, 1990), immunomodulatory Kim et al, 1997;Murasugi et al, 1991;Van der Hem et al, 1995;Wang et al, 1997) and antioxidant (Lin et al, 1995;Wang et al, 1985) effects. In addition, G. lucidum has been reported to induce differentiation of human leukaemic HL-60 cells (Lieu et al, 1992).…”