BIORESEARCH UPDATE NEWS LETTER #1 Medici...

  Medicinal Mushrooms  For OPTIMUM HEALTH AND LONGEVITY  Ken Babal, C.N. We all know that vitamin and mineral supplements can augment diets by providing essential nutrients that ward off disease. Likewise, botanicals can help us stay well, and can be used medicinally. There is yet a third category that ranks high for cultivating optimum health and resistance to disease. This is the mushroom category. Mushrooms are members of the fungal family, sometimes referred to as the third kingdom. Being neither plant nor animal, they possess highly unique characteristics that...

[#2011-09] Effects of Phellinus linteus...

Effects of Phellinus linteus Administration on Serotonin Synthesis in the Brain and Expression of Monocarboxylate Transporters in the Muscle during Exhaustive Exercise in Rats Jin-Hee SEO1 , Yun-Hee SUNG’, Ki-Jeong KIM’, Mal-Soon SHIN’, Eun-Kyu LEE1.2 and Chang-Ju KIM 1.*  1Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, #1 Hoigi-dong, Dongdaemoon-gu, Seoul 130-701, Republic of Korea 2Department of Internal Medicine, Andong Medical Group, #574-2 Susang-dong, Andong, Kyungbuk 760-410, Republic of Korea Summary This study was...

[#2010-16] Medicinal mushroom Phellinus ...

Medicinal mushroom Phellinus linteus ( Meshima ) as an alternative cancer therapy (Review) DANIEL SLIVA1‘2‘3 1Cancer Research Laboratory, Methodist Research Institute; 2Department of Medicine, and 3lndiana University Cancer Center, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA Abstract. Alternative cancer treatment with nutritional/dietary supplements containing a wide variety of herbal products is on the rise in Western countries. Recent epidemiological studies have suggested that mushrooms may prevent against different types of cancers....

[#2009-16] Anti-oxidative effects of Phe...

Anti-oxidative effects of Phellinus linteus and red ginseng extracts on oxidative stress-induced DNA damage Byung-Jae Park, Yeong-Seok Lim, Hee-Jung Lee, Won Sik Eum, Jinseu Park, Kyu Hyung Han, Soo Young Choi& Kil Soo Lee Anti-oxidative effect of Phellinus linteus ( Meshima ) and red ginseng extracts on DNA damage induced by reactive oxygen species (ROS) were investigated in this study. P. linteus (PLE) and red ginseng extracts (RGE) inhibited the breaking of E. con CoIE1 plasmid DNA strands as well as nuclear DNA of it hepatocytes damaged by oxidative stress. In...

[#2008-15] Meshima (Phellinus linteus) ...

 Meshima (Phellinus linteus) suppresses growth, angiogenesis and invasive behaviour of breast cancer cells through the inhibition of AKT signalling D Sliva1,2‘3, A Jedinak’, J Kawasaki, K Harvey’ and V Slivova’ 1Cancer Research Laboratory, Methodist Research Institute 2Department of Medicine, Indiana University 3lndiana University Simon Cancer Center, School of Medicine, Indiana University The antitumour activity of a medicinal meshima mushroom Phellinus linteus (PL), through the stimulation of immune system or the induction of apoptosis, has been...

[#2007-12] Meshima Matsuba, Shintaro et...

Phellinus linteus is a fungus distributed throughout Japan, Korea and China. Boiled watersoluble extracts from P. linteus (PLW) have shown anti-tumor and immunomodulatory properties in experiments done by intraperitoneal treatment, or in in vitro cell cultures. This is the first investigation on how oral administration of PLW influences immune responses. Here, we established immunodeficient mice by mitomycin C (MMC) and then researched how PLW influenced plaque-forming cell (PFC) production and populations of cytokine [interferon-(IFNg-) and interleukin-4...