TL;DR: Partially purified polysaccharides were obtained from four medicinal mushroom species, Agaricus bisporus, A. brasiliensis, Phellinus linteus and Ganoderma lucidum by hot water extraction, followed by ethanol precipitation as mentioned in this paper.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the immunochemotherapeutic activity of polysaccharides (PL) against tumor growth and metastasis in B16F10 melanoma.
TL;DR: Overall in vitro immune function was enhanced by addition of PL into culture of mouse spleen lymphocyte and i.p. injection into mouse, while beta-glucans and other polysaccharides only raised the level of T lymphocyte-mediated immunity.
TL;DR: Antioxidant activity assays in vitro indicated that the degraded PL-N fraction with low molecular weight had stronger hydroxyl radical scavenging capacity and higher TEAC and FRAP values.
TL;DR: Three partially purified polysaccharides were extracted from Phellinus linteus mycelia using hot water, 1% (NH4)2C2O4, and 1.25M NaOH/0.05% NaBH4 and could thus be developed as potential natural antioxidant agents for applications in food additives and biomedical industries.