a) Applied Plant Science Division, Agri-Food & Bioscience Institute, Northern Ireland
b) Grosvenor Grammar School, Northern Ireland
c) Northern Ireland Public Health Laboratories, Department of Bacteriology, Belfast City, Northern Ireland
d) School of Biomedical Sciences, Centre for Molecular Sciences, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice 15 (2009) 5-7
Antibiotic agents have been in widespread and largely effective therapeutic use since their discovery in the 20th century. However, with the emergence of multi-drug resistant pathogens now presents an increasing global challenge to both human and veterinary medicine. It is now widely acknowledged that there is a need to develop novel antimicrobial agents to minimize the threat of further antimicrobial resistance, With this in mind, a study was undertaken to examine the antimicrobial properties of aqueous extracts of “exotic” Shitake and Oyster mushrooms on a range of environmental and clinically important microorganisms.
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Clinical Articles
The following section outlines the clinical papers, posters and proposals that refer to the clinical use of MRL mushroom nutrition products. This information is for healthcare practitioners only and should not be provided to members of the general public.
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Clinical articles
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Mushroom Nutrition In Neurodegenerative Diseases
Prof. Vittorio Calabrese
Faculty of Medicine, University of Catania and University of Messina, Italy -
Targeting Neurogenesis with Mushroom Nutrition: A Mini Review
Dr. Elisabete Ferreiro, CNC-Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology
CIBB-Centre for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Prof. Tito Fernandes, CIISA
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Lisbon University, Lisbon, Portugal -
Central Nervous System Profiling of Hericium erinaceus Biomass Powder by an Electropharmacogram Using Spectral Field Power in Conscious Freely Moving Rats
Prof. Wilfried Dimpfel Justus
Liebig-University Giessen, Germany
Dr. Julie Wiebe
Nektium Pharm S.L., Las Palmas, Spain
Dr. Nigel Gericke, Gericke Consulting
Baden, Switzerland
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A TCM Perspective on Mushroom Nutrition: Hericium erinaceus and Trametes versicolor (synn. Coriolus versicolor) as a synergistic combination
Karel Simonovsky and Zuzana Vancurikova