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Tea Tree Mushroom Sugar Flips Immune Cells to Fight Colon Cancer

Tea Tree Mushroom Sugar Flips Immune Cells to Fight Colon Cancer

Tea tree mushroom

What they found

A tea tree mushroom polysaccharide switched immune cells in colorectal cancer from tumor-promoting M2 to tumor-fighting M1.

A tea tree mushroom polysaccharide switched immune cells in colorectal cancer from tumor-promoting M2 to tumor-fighting M1.

How solid is it?

Lab dish

Lab dish

Lab – cell study

Lab – cell study

Evidence ladder: Lab dish → Animal → Early human → Strong human. Reviews summarize earlier research.

At a glance

Latin name

Agrocybe aegerita

Agrocybe aegerita

Compound

fuco-galactoglucan

fuco-galactoglucan

Published in

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

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Section

HEALTH & WELLNESS

HEALTH & WELLNESS

As it ran in Shroom Scan

Immune Reprogramming

Immune Reprogramming

A fuco-galactoglucan from the tea tree mushroom (Agrocybe aegerita) shifted immune cells in colorectal cancer from a tumor-promoting M2 state to a tumor-fighting M1 state.

A fuco-galactoglucan from the tea tree mushroom (Agrocybe aegerita) shifted immune cells in colorectal cancer from a tumor-promoting M2 state to a tumor-fighting M1 state.

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