Erratum

This article refers to:

Hypoglycemic effect of crude exopolysaccharides produced by Cerrena unicolor, Coprinus comatus, and Lenzites betulina isolates in streptozotocin- induced diabetic rats

The Publishers would like to apologise for an error regarding an article published in Pharmaceutical Biology, 2009; 47(2): 168–174.

Hypoglycemic effect of crude exopolysaccharides produced by Cerrena unicolor, Coprinus comatus, and Lenzites betulina isolates in streptozotocininduced diabetic rats

Mustafa Yamac, Melih Zeytinoglu, Gungor Kanbak, Gokhan Bayramoglu, and Hakan Senturk

The short title should have read:

Hypoglycemic effect of mushroom expolysaccharides

Table 1 should have been as follows:

Table 3.  Hypoglycaemic activities of various mushrooms in diabetic animals.

Mushrooms	Fungal materials (methods)	Dose	Diabetic animals	Period	Reduction ratio in blood glucose level (%)	References
Agaricaceae
Agaricus campestris L.	Extract of fruiting body (DW) and fruiting body powder (FD)	62.5^§	Mice (STZ)	12 d	50.4	Gray & Flatt, 1998
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müll.) Pers.	EPS (OA)	100^‡	SD rat (STZ)	7 d	42.78	This study
Auriculariaceae
Auricularia auricula- judae (Fr.) Quél.	Extract of fruiting body (FD)	30^§	KK-Ay-TA mice	13 d	50.5^*	Yuan et al., 1998
Bolbitiaceae
Agrocybe cylindracea (DC.) Gillet	IPS (IP)	50^†	ddy mice (STZ)	5 h	51.0	Kiho et al., 1994
Clavicipitaceae
Cordyceps militaris (L.) Link	EPS (OA)	50^‡	SD rat (STZ)	7 d	14.0	Kim et al., 2001b
	Extract of fruiting body (OA)	100^‡	Rat (STZ)	48 h	60.0 – 82. 0^**	Zhang et al., 2006
	EPS (OA)	10^‡	Rat (STZ)	24 h	70.0 – 85.0^**	Zhang et al., 2006
Cordyceps sinensis (Berk.) Sacc.	IPS (IP)	50^†	KK-Ay-TA mice	48 h	13.7	Kiho et al., 1996
	IPS (IV)	1 – 10^†	KK-Ay-TA mice	6 h	18.8 – 46.4	Kiho et al., 1996
	IPS (IP)	100^†	ddy mice (STZ)	3 h	48.6 - 62.3	Kiho et al., 1993
	IPS (OA)	500^‡	ddy mice (STZ)	24 h	6.9 – 24.5	Kiho et al., 1993
	EPS (OA)	10^‡	Rat (STZ)	24 h	55.0 – 65.0^**	Zhang et al., 2006
Hymenochaetaceae
Phellinus baumii Pilát	EPS (OA)	200^‡	SD rat (STZ)	14 d	52.3	Hwang et al., 2005
Phellinus linteus (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Teng	EPS (OA)	50 – 200^‡	SD rat (STZ)	7 d	19.4 - 50.0	Kim et al., 2001c
	EPS (OA)	50^‡	SD rat (STZ)	7 d	18.0	Kim et al., 2001b
	Submerged biomass (FD)	2.5 – 10^#	SD rat (STZ)	7 d	19.0 - 28.0^**	Kim et al., 2001a
Marasmiaceae
Lentinus edodes (Berk.) Singer	EPS (OA)	100^‡	SD rat (STZ)	7 d	17.8	Yang et al., 2002a
	EPS (OA)	50 ^‡	SD rat (STZ)	7 d	18.0	Kim et al., 2001b
Meripilaceae
Grifola frondosa (Dicks.) Gray	Extract of fruiting body (FD)	25^#	KK-Ay-TA mice	14 d	54.0 ^*	Kubo et al., 1994
Pleurotaceae
Pleurotus pulmonarius (Fr.) Quél.	Extract of fruiting body (OA)	250 - 1000^‡	SA mice (ALL)	acute or 28 d	73.0	Badole et al., 2006
Polyporaceae
Cerrena unicolor (Bull.) Murrill	EPS (OA)	100^‡	SD rat (STZ)	7 d	61.23	This study
Lenzites betulina (L.) Fr.	EPS (OA)	100 ^‡	SD rat (STZ)	7 d	42.08	This study
Tremellaceae
Tremella aurantia Schw. ex Fr.	IPS (IP)	30-100^†	KK-Ay-TA mice	24 h	6.6 – 18.0	Kiho et al., 1995
Tricholomataceae
Collybia confluens (Pers.) P. Kumm.	Submerged biomass (OA)	100 – 400^‡	SD rat (STZ)	21 d	18.0 – 34.0^**	Yang et al., 2006
Omphalia lapidescens (Horan.) Cohn & J. Schröt	Extract of fruiting body (OA)	100^‡	Rat (STZ)	24 h	60.0 – 65.0^**	Zhang et al., 2006
	EPS (OA)	10^‡	Rat (STZ)	24 h	55.0 – 60.0^**
Tricholoma mongolicum S. Imai	EPS (OA)	10^‡	Rat (STZ)	24 h	7.0 – 45.0^**	Zhang et al., 2006

DW: drinking water; EPS: Extracellular polysaccharide; FD: feeding with diet; IP: intraperitoneal administration; IPS: Intracellular polysaccharide; IV: Intravenous; OA: oral administration; ALL: diabetic animals induced by the injection of alloxan monohydrate for the induction of type 1 diabetes; STZ: diabetic animals induced by the injection of streptozotocin for the induction of type 1 diabetes; KK-Ay-TA mice: one of the animal models for type 2 diabetes, SA mice: Swiss albino mice; SD rat: Sprague-Dawley rat.

^§g/kg diet; ^†mg/kg, ip; ^‡mg/kg/day; ^#fungal material ratio in diet.

^*The data indicate approximate values calculated by Hwang et al. (2005) from figures in the references.

^**The data indicate approximate values calculated by the authors from figures in the references.