Mushrooms, the fruiting bodies of fungi, are known for a long time in different cultures
around the world to possess medicinal properties and are used to treat various human …

Inonotus obliquus (Chaga mushroom) is a kind of medicine and health food widely used by
folk in China, Russia, Korea, and some occidental countries. Among the extracts from …

In several regions of Africa, the daily diet is partly dependent on the edible products from
wild animals, plants, and mushrooms, driven by their availability, wide distribution in the …

An immuno-stimulatory polysaccharide (EtISPFa) was purified from water extract of the
fungus Echinodontium tinctorium. EtISPFa has an estimated weight average molecular …

In our search for bioactive mushrooms native to British Columbia, we determined that the
ethanol extracts from fruiting bodies of the terrestrial polypore Albatrellus flettii had potent …

Cell-to-cell communication is a key element of microvascular blood flow control, including
rapidly carrying signals through the vascular endothelium in response to local stimuli. This …

Wild mushrooms, while largely explored for their ecological significance, have not been
systematically studied for their medicinal properties. This is the first report of biological …

A growth-inhibitory polysaccharide (GIPinv) was purified using size-exclusion and ion-
exchange chromatography from the fourth sodium hydroxide extraction step of a fungus …

Background. Inonotus obliquus (Chaga) is a parasitic fungus that is distributed mainly in
northeast China. Our literature research showed chaga polysaccharides have bilateral …

The aim of this study was to investigate the anti-inflammatory activity of a previously un-
studied wild mushroom, Echinodontium tinctorium, collected from the forests of north-central …