Research Article

The Effect of Mushroom Beta-Glucans from Solid Culture of Ganoderma lucidum on Inhibition of the Primary Tumor Metastasis

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Necropsy examinations of mice lungs. Lungs from the tumor-bearing mice were removed and visually examined for the numbers of metastatic tumor nodules. As the results indicated (a) in the control group lungs with a few surface metastatic tumors nodules (arrows); (b) in the radiation therapy group lungs with a large number of surface metastatic tumors nodules (arrows); (c) in the MBGS treatments group lungs appeared to be free of metastatic tumor nodules; (d) in the combination of MBGS treatments and radiation therapy group lungs with a few surface metastatic tumors nodules (arrows).
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