#CauliflowerMushroom - #SparassisCrispa.
One of my fave #edible & #medicinal #WildMushrooms. It's found in many places around the world, including forests on #VancouverIsland.
We #forage for these wild #mushrooms & use it in making some soups & stir fry dishes.

It's used often in #traditional #Chinese #medicine #TCM because it contains active #pharmacological ingredients. In order to study its medicinal value better, the genomic sequence of S. crispa was published in Oct 2018.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6207663

Dry weight of the #basidiocarp was found to contain up to 43.6% #BetaGlucan, which was approved for the treatment of #cancer in #Japan & recommended for #COVID19 patients to overcome #inflammation.

Experiments suggest that S. crispa contains chemicals that may stimulate the #ImmuneSystem & has many #biological properties including: #AntiTumor, #antiviral activity (reverse transcriptase inhibitory activity), #neuroprotection, #cardioprotection, #AntiInflammation, #hyperlipidemia, #AntiDiabetic medication, #antimicrobial compounds, & methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus #MRSA.

#ForestForaging #MushroomsMedicine #FoodFromTheForest #WildFoods #VanIsle #Wsanec #Saanich #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #MushroomsMonday #LookReadLearn #AsianMastodon

"Next Chapter in the #Legend of #silphion Preliminary Morphological, Chemical, Biological and #Pharmacological Evaluations, Initial Conservation #studies and Reassessment of the Regional #Extinction Event"

https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/10/1/102

#openaccess

https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/plants/plants-10-00102/article_deploy/plants-10-00102.pdf?version=1609926557

"These results suggest that the abundance of #polysulfides in #broccoli #sprouts contribute to their #health-promoting properties. Our findings have important #biological implications for the development of novel #pharmacological targets for the health-promoting effects of broccoli sprouts in humans."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213231723002768?via%3Dihub

A major #hydrogenbond network within #Angiotensin II #receptor 1 determines signaling towards #Gq #Gprotein or beta-#arrestin in response to balanced or biased receptor agonists

#CryoEM structural and functional data by Haitao Zhang and coworkers with implications for #pharmacological targeting to control #bloodpressure and confer heart protection

https://www.embopress.org
/doi/10.15252/embj.2022112940

@PBruce

(2/6)

"...painless #ConcentrationCamp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their #liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by #propaganda or #brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by #pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the Final Revolution.”

We are always interested in students for bachelor and master theses. The topics range from #bioinformatics, #bioanalytic|s to medical #pharmacological topics. For example, we are investigating whether #CBD has a DNA damaging effect (DSB, DNA double strand break). We would be happy to find someone who wants to work with #brain #organoids.

#DSB #dnadamage #bachelorthesis #masterthesis #fedijob #organoid #biomedicine