This article provides an overview of the essential differences between the biomass and extract form of mushroom products. The article addresses the betagucan content of both forms as well as the three forms of enzyme activity found in biomass form; contributing to their role as “biological response modifiers”.
(1) Global Health and Tropical Medicine, Institute of Higyene and Tropical Medicine, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
(2) University of Coimbra, Portugal.
(3) Ministry of Education and Human Development, Maputo, Mozambique.
(4) University of Catania, Italy
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