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Bone Marrow

Bone marrow is the engine of blood and immune cell production. Beta glucan has been shown to protect and restore bone marrow after stressors like radiation, chemotherapy, and infection by stimulating hematopoietic stem cells and progenitor cell recovery.

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Unlocking the Body's Bone Marrow Repair Engine

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A mushroom-derived sugar “trains” bone marrow to make cancer-fighting neutrophils in mice.New

A yeast sugar particle “trains” lung immune cells to block cancer spread by flipping a mitochondrial switch.New

A one-time β-glucan “memory” signal, driven by a switch called MITF, can push certain immune cells to chew up more bone during gum disease and arthritis.New

A “primer” from yeast (β-glucan) taught innate immune cells to fight leishmaniasis better by switching on IL-32 and training bone-marrow cells.New

  1. Dos Santos β-Glucan-Induced Trained Immunity Protects against Leishmania braziliensis Infection: A Crucial Role for IL-32 2019
  2. Haacke Innate immune training of osteoclastogenesis promotes inflammatory bone loss in mice 2025
  3. Ding Inducing trained immunity in pro-metastatic macrophages to control tumor metastasis 2024
  4. Kalafati Innate Immune Training of Granulopoiesis Promotes Anti-tumor Activity 2020

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