{"id":207419,"date":"2025-02-28T04:02:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T10:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/common-fungal-compound-may-be-the-key-to-fighting-deadly-flu-infections"},"modified":"2025-02-28T04:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T10:02:44","slug":"common-fungal-compound-may-be-the-key-to-fighting-deadly-flu-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/common-fungal-compound-may-be-the-key-to-fighting-deadly-flu-infections","title":{"rendered":"Common Fungal Compound May Be the Key to Fighting Deadly Flu Infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/common-fungal-compound-may-be-the-key-to-fighting-deadly-flu-infections.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Preclinical trial reveals how beta-glucan, a compound found in all fungi, can \u2018reprogram\u2019 immune cells to combat lung inflammation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A recent study suggests that a common fungal component may help protect against flu-related lung damage.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Professor Maziar Divangahi from <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/mcgill-university\/\">McGill\u2019s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences<\/a> and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, the research team found that beta-glucan, when given to mice before influenza exposure, reduced lung damage, improved lung function, and lowered the risk of severe illness and death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preclinical trial reveals how beta-glucan, a compound found in all fungi, can \u2018reprogram\u2019 immune cells to combat lung inflammation. A recent study suggests that a common fungal component may help protect against flu-related lung damage. Led by Professor Maziar Divangahi from McGill\u2019s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and the Research Institute of the McGill [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}