Auhtors: Zhang J-J, Wang D-W, Cai D, Lu Q, Cheng Y-X PMID: 34805099 PMCID: PMC8595597 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2021.772740 Abstract Ganoderma fungi as popular raw materials of numerous functional foods have been extensively investigated. In this study, five pairs of meroterpenoid enantiomers beyond well-known triterpenoids and polysaccharides, dayaolingzhiols I-M (1-5), were characterized from Ganoderma lucidum. Their structures [...]

Auhtors: Godsland IF PMID: 19922415 PMCID: PMC2782313 DOI: 10.1042/CS20090399 Abstract Experimental, epidemiological and clinical evidence implicates insulin resistance and its accompanying hyperinsulinaemia in the development of cancer, but the relative importance of these disturbances in cancer remains unclear. There are, however, theoretical mechanisms by which hyperinsulinaemia could amplify such growth-promoting effects as insulin may have, [...]