Compounds that exhibit neuroprotective and neuroregenerative activities are the cordycepin from Cordyceps militaris (Cheng et al., 2011), complex carbohydrates and sterols from Ganoderma lucidum (Zhao et al., 2005), lysophosphatidylethanolamine from Grifola frondosa (Nishina et al., 2006), phenol derivatives and diterpene xylosides from Hericium
erinaceus (Kawagishi et al., 2008), alkaloids and diterpenes from L.
The knowledge of Erinaceidae in particular on
Erinaceus europaeus [23,24,25], [32], [35,36] [35, 36], [50], [53], [25,56,57,58], [71,72,73,74], [37], [105], [13,14,15,16], [22], [43], [33,34], [51], [99], [80], E.e.roumanicus ([87], the hedgehog of South Africa A.frontalis [44], the hedgehog of Central Africa Atelerix albiventris [45], and the hedgehog of Algeria A.algirus [49,92,38,67,10], and the hedgehog of India Hemiechinus micropus [18,19,20,21] are already numerous.