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in standardised mushroom extracts we
believe passionately in sharing information
for education purposes from the growing body of independent published research
on medicinal mushrooms. Mycopharmaź cannot
and does not vouch for the accuracy of independent
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To make your own informed decisions please
refer to the original published research.
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We encourage you to access as much information
as possible from as many sources as possible
and then draw your
own conclusions. You may find the
following links useful as part of your investigations.
Mycopharma® does not endorse the content
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information about medical conditions always
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please let us know.
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| Mushroom
science links |
| Australasian Mycologist : Journal of the Australasian Mycological Society |
| BioOne |
| Cambridge
Journals |
| Cornell
University - Mycological Resources |
| DOAJ
- Directory of Open Access Journals |
| Fifty years of the Mycological Society of Japan: Overview of Publication History of its Scientific Journals |
| Gesellschaft
für Vitalpilzkunde |
| Google
Scholar - Mushrooms |
| Gulf States Mycological Society |
| International
Journal for Medicinal Mushrooms |
| International
Society for Mushroom Science |
| Krypto-S Botanical database at the Swedish Museum of Natural History |
| Medicinal Mushrooms and Cancer - Cancer Research UK |
| MycoBank - Online Dababase of the International Mycological Association |
| Mycologia - Journal of the Mycological Society of America |
| Mycologia Balcanica - Journal of the Bulgarian Mycological Society |
| Mycological Progress - International Journal of the German Mycological Society |
| Mycological
Research Journal |
| Mycological Association Joaquim Codina |
| Mycoscience - Official English Journal of the Mycological Society of Japan |
| Pharmacognosy
Network Worldwide |
| PubMed.gov |
| SciELO
Scientific Electronic Library Online |
| Science
Direct |
| The Mycology.Net |
| Transactions of the British Mycological Society |
| Whiley
Interscience |
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| Medicinal
mushroom articles |
| "Antioxidant Properties of Several Medicinal Mushrooms", Jeng-Leun Mau, Hsiu-Ching Lin, and Chin-Chu Chen,
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, J. Agric. Food Chem., 2002, 50 (21), pp 6072–6077 |
| Cancer information: Agaricus - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
| Cancer information: Maitake - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
| Cancer information: Reishi Mushroom - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
| Cancer information: Shitake - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
| "Cholesterol-Lowering Effects of Maitake (Grifola frondosa) Fiber, Shiitake (Lentinus edodes) Fiber, and Enokitake (Flammulina velutipes) Fiber in Rats", Michihiro Fukushima, Tetsu Ohashi, Yukiko Fujiwara, Kei Sonoyama and Masuo Nakano, Experimental Biology and Medicine 226:758-765 (2001) |
| "Coriolus versicolor: a medicinal mushroom with promising immunotherapeutic values", Chu et al., J Clin Pharmacol .2002; 42: 976-984 |
| "Effects of D-Fraction, a polysaccharide from Grifola frondosa on tumor growth involve activation of NK cells", Kodama N, Komuta K, Sakai N, Nanba H., Biol Pharm Bull. 2002 Dec;25(12):1647-50 |
| "Hematologic and Metabolic Effects of Dietary Supplementation with Agaricus sylvaticus Fungi on Rats Bearing Solid Walker 256 Tumor", Vanessa Cunha Taveira, Maria Rita Carvalho Garbi Novaes, Marcelo dos Anjos Reis and Monique Fernandes da Silva, Experimental Biology and Medicine 233:1341-1347 (2008) |
| "The Immunobiology of Mushrooms", Andrea T. Borchers, Anita Krishnamurthy, Carl L. Keen, Frederick J. Meyers and M. Eric Gershwin, Experimental Biology and Medicine 233:259-276 (2008) |
| "Immunological, Hematological, and Glycemia Effects of Dietary Supplementation with Agaricus sylvaticus on Patients’ Colorectal Cancer", Renata C. Fortes, Maria Rita C. G. Novaes, Viviane L. Recôva and Andresa L. Melo, Experimental Biology and Medicine 234:53-62 (2009) |
| "Medicinal Mushrooms and Cancer Therapy: translating a traditional practice into Western medicine", Sullivan, Richard. Smith, John E. Rowan, Neil J., Perspectives in Biology and Medicine - Volume 49, Number 2, Spring 2006, pp. 159-170 |
| "Medicinal Mushrooms: A Selective Overview", Chris D. Meletis, Jason E. Barker. Alternative and Complementary Therapies. June 2005, 11(3): 141-145. doi:10.1089/act.2005.11.141 |
| "Medicinal mushrooms as a source of antitumor and immunomodulating polysaccharides", Wasser SP, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Volume 60, Number 3 / November, 2002 |
| "Medicinal mushrooms: their therapeutic properties and current medical usage with special emphasis on cancer treatments", Smith John E, Rowan NJ and Sullivan R., Cancer Research UK |
| "Mushrooms, Tumors, and Immunity: An Update", Andrea T. Borchers, Carl L. Keen and M. Eric Gershwin, Experimental Biology and Medicine 229:393-406 (2004) |
| "Researcher Reports on Cancer-Fighting Potential of Mushrooms", American Cancer Society, 2000 |
| "Research Update: Medicinal Mushrooms", McGraw Hill's Access Science |
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| Mycological
databases |
| The British Fungi Database |
| SLU Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Organic directory of large mushrooms and myxomyceter |
| United States Department of Agriculture Fungal Databases |
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| Mycological
societies |
| African Society for Edible & Medicinal Mushrooms |
| Australasian Mycological Society |
| British
Mycological Society |
| Bulgarian Mycological Society |
| Czech Mycological Society |
| Czech Scientific Society for Mycology |
| Danish Mycological Society |
| Dutch Mycological Society |
| European Confederation of Mediterranean Mycology |
| European Council for the Conservation of Fungi |
| European Mycological Society |
| German Mycological Society |
| Indian Mycological Society |
| International Mycological Association |
| International Mycological Association Committee for Asia |
| Medical Mycological Society of the Americas |
| Mediteranean Federation of Mycological Associations |
| Mycological Society of America |
| Mycological Society of France |
| Mycological Society of Japan |
| Mycological Society of Nigeria |
| North American Mycological Association |
Norwegian fungi and new growth league |
| Russian Academy of Mycology |
| Slovak Mycological Society |
| Swedish Mycological Society |
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| Other
mushroom and natural health links |
| Fungi.ca - A Canadian Mycological Resource |
| Mycological Resources on the Internet: Teaching - Cornell University Listing |
| Natural
Health Yellow Pages |