Mushrooms, cancer. Cancer research turns to fungi for the identification of new therapies to destroy cancer cells. The attention of the experts focused on a set of extracts from commonly used mushrooms, with particular attention to the useful molecules produced by the mushrooms themselves in nature.
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Research against the cancer caters to mushrooms for the identification of new therapies aimed at annihilating cancer cells. L'attention of the experts has focused on a set of extracts from commonly used mushrooms, with particular attention to the useful molecules produced by the mushrooms themselves in nature.
Mushrooms could therefore become new allies in the fight against cancer, if the experiments conducted by the researchers involved in their use lead to positive results. The research at the time was led by experts from the With (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in collaboration with theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), which analyzed 60 types of compounds extracted from different varieties of mushrooms.
As for the compounds themselves, which have been defined as "epipolitiodiketopiperazine alkaloids" (Etp), most of them are naturally produced by fungi, in order to prepare a real self defense from microorganisms. Similar compounds have been reproduced by scientists in the laboratory, with the aim of testing them on cancer cells of certain types of cancer, with particular reference to breast, lung, cervix and kidney cancer.
The study in question received its publication in the pages of the scientific journal Chemical science. It represents the development of some researches already conducted previously by the same team of experts, who had proved capable of synthesizing a fungal compound to which good anti-cancer properties had been attributed. The hope is that thanks to the progress achieved it will be possible to achieve new possibilities of treatment and drugs against cancer starting from natural elements such as mushrooms.
Marta Albè
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