Description: The Quantum Health Discoveries Research Institute is a private non-profit research facility. The Institute's mission is to further research into mechanisms of action of medicinally important mushroom strains, and educate health care professionals.
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The Quantum Health Discoveries Research Institute is a private non-profit research facility started in 2009, originally named the Quantum Health Human Research Institute and earlier the Pegasus Biochemistry Research Institute. The Institute's mission is to research new science which includes the continued collaboration with other research teams worldwide. A bioinfomatics data base is being developed to provide information on the biological processes compiled from the research for the public and health care
Numerous studies have demonstrated that certain components present in medicinal mushrooms have been responsible for the modulation of cellular and physiological changes in the host. It is for this reason that mushrooms are often used as cancer therapeutic agents. 45,46,47 These studies used cultivated hybrid strains developed in the research labs with proprietary organic substrates. The hybrid strains and specific substrates used in these studies are not available in the wild or from most commercial mushroo
These hybrid strains of medicinal mushrooms in these studies contain valuable unique constituents including polysaccharides , lectins , lipids , hericenone , erinacol , erinacine , and terpenoids . Recently these components, including water-soluble polysaccharides of a specific specie of Cordyceps, were isolated from its fruit bodies and induced intriguing biological activities such as cytotoxicity , synthesis of nerve growth factor, and antimicrobial function. 45