Tropical greenhouses provide unique environments for studying macrofungi, including lepiotoid taxa. One such enigmatic species, Leucoagaricus brunneolilacinus , was originally described from a subtropical greenhouse in Budapest, Hungary. However, its taxonomic position has remained uncertain due to conflicting classifications of Leucoagaricus and Leucocoprinus . To clarify its placement within the Agaricaceae family, we conduc...

Experimental evidence has emerged that local platelet activation contributes to inflammation and infarct formation in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) which awaits confirmation in human studies. We conducted a prospective observational study on 258 consecutive patients undergoing mechanical thrombectomy (MT) due to large-vessel-occlusion stroke of the anterior circulation (08/2018–05/2020). Intraprocedural microcatheter aspiration...

Since the appearance of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), numerous studies have been conducted to find effective therapeutics. Favipiravir (FVP) is one of the repurposed drugs which has been authorized in a few countries on an emergency basis to treat COVID-19. Elderly individuals especially 65 years or older are more prone to develop severe illness. We aim to provide a short summary of the current knowledge of the antivira...

Section Anomali is a species-rich group in North America belonging to Cortinarius , the most diverse genus in the Agaricales. This study is based on extensive morphological investigations and molecular methods using 191 nrDNA ITS sequence data and recovered 43 phylogenetic species from which 14 are described here as new to science. We sequenced ten type materials which belonged to eight species. The synonymy of C. caesiellus w...

The recently revised Geastrum minimum species complex in sect. Geastrum subsect. Quadrifida revealed that the name G. minimum is a nomen ambiguum and dubium and was collectively used for at least two European species (viz. G. granulosum and G. marginatum ). During the morphological revision of the Hungarian materials labelled as G. minimum , different crystal structures were found on the endoperidial body of some specimens tha...