Antiaging Effect of Cordyceps sinensis Extract Deng-Bo Ji’, Jia Chang-Ling Li’, Yu-Hua Wang’, Jiong Zhao’ and Shao-Qing Cai2 ‘Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 2Department of Nature Medicines, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing This experiment studied the effect of Cordyceps sinensis extract (CSE) on mice aged by n-galactose and castrated rats to analyse its antiaging effect. Water maze and step-down...
read moreComparative study of antioxidant activity and antiproliferative effect of hot water and ethanol extracts from the mushroom Chaga (Inonotus obliquus) Honghai Hu,1 Zhenya Zhang,1 Zhongfang Lei,2•* Yingnan Yang,1 and Norio Sugiural Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8572, Japan’ Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China2 The medicinal mushroom Chaga (Inototus obliquus) is a traditional and widely used multi-functional fungus. Hot...
read moreAn extract of the medicinal mushroom Agaricus blazei Murill can protect against allergy Linda K Ellertsen1 and Geir Hetland*2 1Department of Environmental Immunology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway 2Department of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Ulleval, Oslo, Norway Abstract Background: Agaricus blazei Murill (AbM) is an edible Brazilian mushroom that has been used in traditional medicine for a range of diseases. It has been shown to have anti-infection and anti-tumor properties in the...
read moreImmunoceuticals isolated from more than 30 mushroom species have demonstrated anticancer properties in animals, but many fewer have been involved in human cancer research. Of those that are studied in human cancer, all are classified chemically as β-D-glucans (linear polymers of D-glucose with monosaccharides attached) bound to proteins. Collectively they are known as “proteoglycans.” Polysaccharide K (PSK) and polysaccharide peptide (PSP) are the only two proteoglycans that have been systematically investigated in human cancer...
read moreTraditional Chinese medicines (TCM) are growing in popularity. However, are they effective? Cordyceps is not studied as systematically for bioactivity as another TCM, Ganoderma. Cordyceps is fascinating per se, especially because of the pathogenic lifestyle on Lepidopteron insects. The combination of the fungus and dead insect has been used as a TCM for centuries. However, the natural fungus has been harvested to the extent that it is an endangered species. The effectiveness has been attributed to the Chinese philosophical concept of Yin...
read moreCytotoxic and Anti-oxidant Activities of Lanostane-Type Triterpenes Isolated from Poria cocos Liang ZHOU, Yaochun ZHANG, Leslie Adell GAPTER,Hui LING, Rajesh AGARWAL,b and Ka-yun A new lanostane-type triterpene, 29-hydroxypolyporenic acid C (8), was isolated from the dried sclerotia of Poria cocos together with eight other known compounds pachymic acid (I), dehydropachymic acid (2), 3-acetyloxy-16a-hydroxytrametenolic acid (3), polyporenic acid C (4), 3-epi-dehydropachymic acid (5), 3-epi-dehydrotumulosic acid (6), tumulosic acid (7), and...
read moreMeshima (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...
read moreProtein HGFI from the edible mushroom Maitake (Grifola frondosa) is a novel 8 kDa class I hydrophobin that forms rodlets in compressed monolayers Lei Yu,1,2t Baohua Zhang,1 Géza R. Szilvay,2 Ren Sun,1 Janne Jänis,3 Zefang Wang,1 Shuren Feng,1 Haijin Xu,1 Markus B. Linder2 and Mingqiang Qiao1 1College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, 2VTT Biotechnology, Technical Research Centre of Finland 3University of Joensuu, Department of Chemistry Hydrophobins are a group of low-molecular-mass, cysteine-rich proteins that have unusual biophysical...
read moreEvaluation of widely consumed botanicals as immunological adjuvants Govind Ragupathia,∗, K. Simon Yeungb, Ping-Chung Leunge, Mavis Leee, Clara Bik San Laue, Andrew Vickersd, Chandra Hooda, Gary Dengb, Nai-Kong Cheungc, Barrie Cassilethb, Philip Livingstona a Laboratory of Tumor Vaccinology, Melanoma and Sarcoma Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center b Integrative Medicine Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center c Department of Pediatrics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center d Department of Epidemiology and...
read moreInhibitory Effect of TNF-α Produced by Macrophages Stimulated with Grifola frondosa Extract (ME) on the Growth of Influenza A/Aichi/2/68 Virus in MDCK Cells Nobuko Obi,∗,‡ Katsumi Hayashi,§ Tatsurou Miyahara,† Yutaka Shimada,∗,‡Katsutoshi Terasawa,‡,§ Masataka Watanabe,/ Masahide Takeyama, Ryosuke Obi∗ and Hiroshi Ochiai†,‡ ∗Departments of Oriental Medicine and †Human Science, Faculty ofMedicine ‡21st Century COE Program, University of Toyama §Department of Frontier Japanese Oriental (Kampo) Medicine Graduate...
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