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Medicinal Plants and Mushrooms with Immunomodulatory and Anticancer Properties—A Review on Hong Kong’s Experience

2021; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; Volume: 26; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3390/molecules26082173

1433-1373

Grace Gar‐Lee Yue, Clara Bik‐San Lau, Ping‐Chung Leung,

Phytochemistry and Bioactivity Studies

The immune modulating effects of selected herbs deserve careful studies to gain evidence-based support for their further development. We have been working hard on many items of medicinal herbs to gain insight into their immunomodulatory effects relevant to cancer treatment in particular, while infection control is not excluded. Nine of them have been selected to give the results of our exploration on their biological, particularly immunomodulatory activities. Since Hong Kong people especially favor one medicinal mushroom, viz. Coriolus versicolor, a number of clinical trials using Coriolus for cancer-related studies are included in this review. While immune modulation platforms are being built for relevant studies, a brief account on the research targets and related procedures are given.