Overview of reishi mushroom
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92757/#ch9_sec4
Really good summary document - check out the references at the bottom - look them up..
http://www.life-enthusiast.com/reishi-ancient-herb-for-modern-times-a-5106.html
Effective Dosages of the Extract of Ganoderma lucidum in the Treatment of Various Ailments
Effect of Reishi polysaccharides on human stem/progenitor cells.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21055951
Reishi Patent *** check this out more!
Compositions and methods for treating allergies, auto-immune diseases, and improving skin condition by ganoderma lucidum (reishi) polysaccharides
http://www.google.com/patents/US7785600
Reishi looks to stop Nf-Kappa B... here are some studies
Ganoderma lucidum inhibits proliferation of human breast cancer cells by down-regulation of estrogen receptor and NF-κB signaling
http://partnecglobal.eurasiansupply.com/ds/rd/rdgl/ijo_29_3_695_PDF.pdf
Ganoderma lucidum ethanol extract inhibits the inflammatory response by suppressing the NF-κB and toll-like receptor pathways in lipopolysaccharide-stimulated BV2 microglial cells
http://www.spandidos-publications.com/etm/5/3/957?text=fulltext
A water-soluble extract from cultured medium of Ganoderma lucidum (Reishi) mycelia attenuates the small intestinal injury induced by anti-cancer drugs
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3436462/
Antimicrobial Effect of the Lingzhi or Reishi Medicinal Mushroom, Ganoderma lucidum (Higher Basidiomycetes) and Its Main Compounds.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24940906
Someone that was testing out reishi... their results... which i am starting to see the same thing
http://www.aces.edu/urban/metronews/vol3no4/Mushroom.html
Overview of reishi mushroom
Chapter 9 Ganoderma lucidum (Lingzhi or Reishi)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92757/
Metabolic Pathway - possible drug interactions
Very important
Ganoderma lucidum (Reishi) in cancer treatment.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14713328
The in vitro and in vivo experimental evidences disclose the chemopreventive effects of Ganoderma lucidum on cancer invasion and metastasis.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20461449
Reishi and NF-kappa B - how it helps pancreatic cancer
NF-κB as a target for pancreatic cancer therapy.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22443181
There are studies on nf-kappa b and how reishi stops it for breast cancer patients...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3201987/
On kras nf-kappa B activation and pancreatic cancer
http://pharmastrategyblog.com/2012/01/on-kras-nf-kb-activation-and-pancreatic-cancer.html/
Function of nuclear factor kappaB in pancreatic cancer metastasis.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12538487
Reishi and CHEMO
Effects of a water-soluble extract of Ganoderma lucidum mycelia on aberrant crypt foci induced by azoxymethane and small-intestinal injury by 5-FU in F344 rats.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23338779
A water-soluble extract from cultured medium of Ganoderma lucidum (Reishi) mycelia attenuates the small intestinal injury induced by anti-cancer drugs.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22966257
Protective effects of a water-soluble extract from cultured medium of Ganoderma lucidum (Rei-shi) mycelia and Agaricus blazei murill against X-irradiation in B6C3F1 mice: Increased small intestinal crypt survival and prolongation of average time to animal death.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15702228
Reishi -
Enhanced immune recognition of cryptic glycan markers in human tumors.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19223535
Studies on the immuno-modulating and antitumor activities of Ganoderma lucidum (Reishi) polysaccharides: functional and proteomic analyses of a fucose-containing glycoprotein fraction responsible for the activities.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11836115
The anti-tumor effect of Ganoderma lucidum is mediated by cytokines released from activated macrophages and T lymphocytes.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9096652
Medicinal mushroom Lingzhi or Reishi, Ganoderma lucidum (W.Curt.:Fr.) P. Karst., beta-glucan induces Toll-like receptors and fails to induce inflammatory cytokines in NF-kappaB inhibitor-treated macrophages.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22135873
Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides enhance the function of immunological effector cells in immunosuppressed mice.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17182202
Reishi Adjuvant
A novel adjuvant Ling Zhi-8 enhances the efficacy of DNA cancer vaccine by activating dendritic cells
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00262-011-1016-4#page-1
F3 - fucose - extracted from reishi
Taiwan researchers unlock reishi mushroom's cancer-fighting secret
http://focustaiwan.tw/news/ast/201308300020.aspx
Immunomodulatory and adjuvant activities of a polysaccharide extract of Ganoderma lucidum in vivo and in vitro.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20653103
Molecular basis for the effects of an herbal supplement - F3
http://www.pnas.org/content/110/34/13693.full.pdf
Immunization of fucose-containing polysaccharides from Reishi mushroom induces antibodies to tumor-associated Globo H-series epitopes.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23908400
Globo - H
Glycan microarray of Globo H and related structures for quantitative analysis of breast cancer
http://www.pnas.org/content/105/33/11661.full
Trial of Active Immunotherapy With Globo H-KLH (OPT-822) in Metastatic Breast Cancer Subjects
http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01516307
Broken Spores from reishi
Comparison of the immunomodulatory effects of spore polysaccharides and broken spore polysaccharides isolated from Ganoderma lucidum on murine splenic lymphocytes and peritoneal macrophages in vitro].
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16378103
Antitumor and Immunomodulatory Effects of Polysaccharides from Broken-Spore of Ganoderma lucidum.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22811667
Patent to get F3 from reishi
Reishi F3 sub fraction polysaccharides and methods of using same
http://www.google.de/patents/US8071105
Administering a polysaccharide or glycopeptide component having terminal fucose residues with alpha 1,2-fucosidic linkages; increasing hematopoietic activity
https://www.google.com/patents/US7560114
Have to figure out who sells or how to make F3
stanford to have a clinical trial in 2014 - for cd47 vaccine...
CD47 - looks to be over expressed on cancer cells.
http://stemcell.stanford.edu/CD47/
http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2013/may/cd47.html
Reishi Allergies
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21698671
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21612588
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14723251
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22569041