Medicinal mushroom modulators of molecular targets as cancer therapeutics

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 453-468

  Zaidman, Ben Zion ^a,b   Yassin, Majed ^a,b   Mahajna, Jamal ^b   Wasser, Solomon P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b MIGAL GALILEE TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; METABOLITES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ONCOLOGY; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROTEINS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; TUMORS;

CANCER THERAPEUTICS; METASTASIS; MUSHROOMS; STRUCTURAL DIVERSITY; TUMORIGENESIS;

DRUG PRODUCTS;

14 ACETOXY 15 HYDROXYIRPEXAN; 14 ACETOXY 22,23 DIHYDRO 15,23 DIHYDROXYIRPEXAN; 14,15 DIHYDROXYIRPEXAN; 14,15 IRPEXANOXIDE; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; CLAVILACTONE A; CLAVILACTONE B; CLAVILACTONE D; D FRACTION; DNA TOPOISOMERASE INHIBITOR; ERBSTATIN; GENISTEIN; GLIOTOXIN; HERBIMYCIN A; IROFULVEN; IRPEXAN; KRESTIN; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; LENTINAN; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE INHIBITOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; QUERCETIN; SCHIZOPHYLLAN; SELENIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

MEDICINE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ASCITES TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CELL CYCLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG TARGETING; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; GRIFOLA FRONDOSA; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; LENTINUS EDODES; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CARCINOMA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METASTASIS; MITOSIS INHIBITION; MUSHROOM; NONHUMAN; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PROSTATE CANCER; SCHIZOPHYLLUM COMMUNE; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOMACH CANCER; TRAMETES VERSICOLOR;

AGARICALES; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS; POLYSACCHARIDES;

ANIMALIA; BASIDIOMYCOTA;

EID: 20944449626     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-004-1787-z     Document Type: Short Survey

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