<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2239d2eb-3af8-4698-82f1-c51828b48998/5E465134-7B52-4268-AFBD-40AB2784B39B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080415/sc_nm/cancer_mushrooms_dc_3" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080415/sc_nm/cancer_mushrooms_dc_3" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080415/sc_nm/cancer_mushrooms_dc_3">Extracts from a mushroom used for centuries in Eastern Asian medicine may stop <SPAN id="lw_1208283526_0" class="yshortcuts">breast cancer cells</SPAN> from growing and could become a new weapon in the fight against the killer disease, scientists said on Tuesday</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080415/sc_nm/cancer_mushrooms_dc_3">Laboratory tests using <SPAN id="lw_1208283526_1" class="yshortcuts">human breast cancer cells</SPAN> show the mushroom called Phellinus linteus has a marked anti-cancer effect, probably by blocking an enzyme called AKT. AKT is known to control signals that lead to cell growth.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080415/sc_nm/cancer_mushrooms_dc_3">Phellinus linteus -- called song gen in Chinese medicine, sang-hwang in <SPAN id="lw_1208283526_2" class="yshortcuts">Korean</SPAN> and meshimakobu in Japanese -- has previously been shown to have anti-tumor properties on skin, lung and <SPAN id="lw_1208283526_3" class="yshortcuts">prostate cancer cells</SPAN>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080415/sc_nm/cancer_mushrooms_dc_3">the mushroom extract reduced uncontrolled growth of new <SPAN id="lw_1208283526_5" class="yshortcuts">cancer cells</SPAN>, suppressed their aggressive behavior and blocked new tumor-feeding blood vessels.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080415/sc_nm/cancer_mushrooms_dc_3">"We're not yet able to apply this knowledge to modern medicine, but we ... hope our study will encourage more researchers to explore the use of medicinal mushrooms for the treatment of cancer,"</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5E465134-7B52-4268-AFBD-40AB2784B39B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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