Many bioactive phenolic compounds have been reported in hive products. This review discusses the occurrence and putative therapeutic applications of these phenolic compounds and is intended to be read by scientists, physicians, nutritionists, and other researchers interested in the rapidly developing science of honey and related products. In view of the information presented here, honey can be regarded as a rich source of phenolic bioactive molecules with promising potential benefits to health.
{"title":"Role of honey polyphenols in health","authors":"C. Uthurry, D. Hevia, C. Gómez-Cordovés","doi":"10.3896/IBRA.4.03.4.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3896/IBRA.4.03.4.01","url":null,"abstract":"Many bioactive phenolic compounds have been reported in hive products. This review discusses the occurrence and putative therapeutic applications of these phenolic compounds and is intended to be read by scientists, physicians, nutritionists, and other researchers interested in the rapidly developing science of honey and related products. In view of the information presented here, honey can be regarded as a rich source of phenolic bioactive molecules with promising potential benefits to health.","PeriodicalId":14866,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Apiproduct and Apimedical Science","volume":"20 1","pages":"141-159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79274197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the major cause of death worldwide. Initially balloon angioplasty (BA) seemed to be a commonly available treatment for such disease. The major limitation of this method is restenosis. With the advancement of coronary stenting, the incidence rate of restenosis after ballon angioplasty has been greatly reduced. However, in-stent restenosis (accounting for 1040% of patients: mainly due to neointimal proliferation) has been a major drawback for such coronary interventions. To overcome this, drug eluting stents (DES) have evolved as a prospective proposal. Stents coated with various anti-inflammatory, anti-migratory or anti-proliferative agents are under investigation. These additives suppress the inflammatory response, smooth muscle cell migration and proliferation, thereby inhibiting in-stent restenosis. In this context, it is proposed that honey with diverse polyphenolic and flavonoid composition may prevent in-stent restenosis. Recent research demonstrated that crude honey could exert an anti-proliferative effect against various cancer cell lines such as colon, breast, bladder, oral squamous cell carcinoma and osteosarcoma. Flavonoids and phenolic compounds present in honey have been attributed individually for their anti-inflammatory and anti-proliferative potential and it has been shown that usage of honey in wound healing reduces inflammation and pain. Therefore, we hypothesize that crude honey which is rich in flavonoid and phenolic compounds may be a potential agent in preventing the in-stent restenosis. If our hypothesis is proven correct, honey will be a valuable candidate for saving millions of lives by preventing in-stent restenosis.
{"title":"Is honey a plausible candidate for the prevention of in-stent restenosis?","authors":"S. Jaganathan, V. Raman, E. Supriyanto","doi":"10.3896/IBRA.4.03.4.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3896/IBRA.4.03.4.02","url":null,"abstract":"Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the major cause of death worldwide. Initially balloon angioplasty (BA) seemed to be a commonly available treatment for such disease. The major limitation of this method is restenosis. With the advancement of coronary stenting, the incidence rate of restenosis after ballon angioplasty has been greatly reduced. However, in-stent restenosis (accounting for 1040% of patients: mainly due to neointimal proliferation) has been a major drawback for such coronary interventions. To overcome this, drug eluting stents (DES) have evolved as a prospective proposal. Stents coated with various anti-inflammatory, anti-migratory or anti-proliferative agents are under investigation. These additives suppress the inflammatory response, smooth muscle cell migration and proliferation, thereby inhibiting in-stent restenosis. In this context, it is proposed that honey with diverse polyphenolic and flavonoid composition may prevent in-stent restenosis. Recent research demonstrated that crude honey could exert an anti-proliferative effect against various cancer cell lines such as colon, breast, bladder, oral squamous cell carcinoma and osteosarcoma. Flavonoids and phenolic compounds present in honey have been attributed individually for their anti-inflammatory and anti-proliferative potential and it has been shown that usage of honey in wound healing reduces inflammation and pain. Therefore, we hypothesize that crude honey which is rich in flavonoid and phenolic compounds may be a potential agent in preventing the in-stent restenosis. If our hypothesis is proven correct, honey will be a valuable candidate for saving millions of lives by preventing in-stent restenosis.","PeriodicalId":14866,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Apiproduct and Apimedical Science","volume":"19 1","pages":"160-163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89744301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
1 Departamento Ciencia de los Alimentos, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioanalisis, Universidad de Los Andes, Merida 5101, Venezuela. 2 Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Burgos, Plaza de Misael Banuelos Garcia s/n 09001 Burgos, Castilla y Leon, Spain. 3 Embrapa Labex Europe, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) UMR CSGA – Centre des Sciences du Gout et de l’Alimentation 17 rue Sully, 21065 Dijon, France.
1部食品科学,安第斯大学药店和Bioanalisis, Merida强、委内瑞拉。2个学系,大学广场Burgos, Misael Banuelos·加西亚,编号09001布尔戈斯3西班牙卡斯蒂利亚和莱昂,Embrapa Labex Europe,国家农业研究研究所(计划)UMR CSGA—Centre des Sciences) du Gout et de l ' 'Alimentation 17街萨伦伯格第戎21065、France。
{"title":"Sensory perception of tropical pot honeys by Spanish consumers, using free choice profile","authors":"P. Vit, T. Sancho, Miguel Fernández, R. Deliza","doi":"10.3896/IBRA.4.03.4.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3896/IBRA.4.03.4.04","url":null,"abstract":"1 Departamento Ciencia de los Alimentos, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioanalisis, Universidad de Los Andes, Merida 5101, Venezuela. 2 Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Burgos, Plaza de Misael Banuelos Garcia s/n 09001 Burgos, Castilla y Leon, Spain. 3 Embrapa Labex Europe, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) UMR CSGA – Centre des Sciences du Gout et de l’Alimentation 17 rue Sully, 21065 Dijon, France.","PeriodicalId":14866,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Apiproduct and Apimedical Science","volume":"1 1","pages":"174-180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78703526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Aboud, C. Pasquale, A. Sinacori, S. Massi, P. Conte, G. Alonzo
{"title":"Palynological, physico-chemical and aroma characterization of Sicilian honeys","authors":"F. Aboud, C. Pasquale, A. Sinacori, S. Massi, P. Conte, G. Alonzo","doi":"10.3896/IBRA.4.03.4.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3896/IBRA.4.03.4.03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14866,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Apiproduct and Apimedical Science","volume":"21 1","pages":"164-173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78943661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of bee products on the setting properties of mineral trioxide aggregate mixed with calcium chloride dihydrate. A preliminary study","authors":"H. Ahmed, Rajan Sain, I. Rahman, D. Saini","doi":"10.3896/IBRA.4.03.3.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3896/IBRA.4.03.3.03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14866,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Apiproduct and Apimedical Science","volume":"33 1","pages":"123-127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82419665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leila Nunes Morgado1* and Ortrud Monika Barth 1 Department of Entomology, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, Minas Gerais 37400-000, Brazil. 2 Laboratory of Palynology, Department of Botany, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Ilha do Fundao, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 3 Laboratory of Morphology and Viral Morphogenesis, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, Avenida Brasil 4365, 21040-900 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
{"title":"The detection of pollen in royal jelly of honey bees (Apis mellifera)","authors":"L. N. Morgado, O. Barth","doi":"10.3896/IBRA.4.03.3.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3896/IBRA.4.03.3.05","url":null,"abstract":"Leila Nunes Morgado1* and Ortrud Monika Barth 1 Department of Entomology, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, Minas Gerais 37400-000, Brazil. 2 Laboratory of Palynology, Department of Botany, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Ilha do Fundao, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 3 Laboratory of Morphology and Viral Morphogenesis, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, Avenida Brasil 4365, 21040-900 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.","PeriodicalId":14866,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Apiproduct and Apimedical Science","volume":"44 1","pages":"137-139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83668517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Unifloral honeys have been shown to contain variable components which give each honey a special and individual organoleptic nature. The aim of this work was to characterize for the first time the composition and properties of unique and aromatic Finnish unifloral honeys from raspberry (Rubus idaeus) and fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium). Water content, electrical conductivity, pH, diastase and invertase activity, colour, sugar and phenolic content, melissopalynological characteristics and organoleptical properties were analysed. Raspberry and fireweed honey have low electrical conductivity and diastase number and are rich in fructose. Both honeys have six disaccharides, while raspberry honey and fireweed honey have two and three oligosaccharides, respectively. The total number of identified phenolic compounds was twentysix (26), of which twenty-five (25) were found in raspberry honey and twenty-four (24) in fireweed honey. The ratio of phenolic acids to flavonoids was 2.26 in raspberry honey and 0.89 in fireweed honey. In raspberry honey 71% of pollen grains originated from Rubus species and in fireweed honey only about 3% of pollen grains originated from E. angustifolium. Both honeys were light in colour and had weak and pleasant odour and taste, but crystal formation was quick in raspberry honey and slow in fireweed honey. Our results suggest that sensory assessments, sugar content and phenolic acids/flavonoids ratio are the best criteria in distinguishing these two unifloral honeys.
{"title":"Composition of unique unifloral honeys from the Boreal coniferous forest zone: Fireweed and raspberry honey","authors":"Anneli Salonen, J. Hiltunen, R. Julkunen-Tiitto","doi":"10.3896/IBRA.4.03.3.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3896/IBRA.4.03.3.04","url":null,"abstract":"Unifloral honeys have been shown to contain variable components which give each honey a special and individual organoleptic nature. The aim of this work was to characterize for the first time the composition and properties of unique and aromatic Finnish unifloral honeys from raspberry (Rubus idaeus) and fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium). Water content, electrical conductivity, pH, diastase and invertase activity, colour, sugar and phenolic content, melissopalynological characteristics and organoleptical properties were analysed. Raspberry and fireweed honey have low electrical conductivity and diastase number and are rich in fructose. Both honeys have six disaccharides, while raspberry honey and fireweed honey have two and three oligosaccharides, respectively. The total number of identified phenolic compounds was twentysix (26), of which twenty-five (25) were found in raspberry honey and twenty-four (24) in fireweed honey. The ratio of phenolic acids to flavonoids was 2.26 in raspberry honey and 0.89 in fireweed honey. In raspberry honey 71% of pollen grains originated from Rubus species and in fireweed honey only about 3% of pollen grains originated from E. angustifolium. Both honeys were light in colour and had weak and pleasant odour and taste, but crystal formation was quick in raspberry honey and slow in fireweed honey. Our results suggest that sensory assessments, sugar content and phenolic acids/flavonoids ratio are the best criteria in distinguishing these two unifloral honeys.","PeriodicalId":14866,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Apiproduct and Apimedical Science","volume":"70 1","pages":"128-136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73493466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Until the appearance of the Journal of ApiProduct and ApiMedical Science in January 2009 the dissemination of scientific information on bee products had been a haphazard business with each report fitting in where it could in a spectrum of publications ranging from medicine to botany and food technology to agriculture. The Journal of Apicultural Research (the flagship journal for the International Bee Research Association) gave a platform for a large number of such papers many examples of which are reviewed here.
{"title":"Disseminating research about bee products. A review of articles published in the Journal of Apicultural Research over the past fifty years","authors":"Sarah L Jones, H. R. Jones, A. Thrasyvoulou","doi":"10.3896/IBRA.4.03.3.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3896/IBRA.4.03.3.01","url":null,"abstract":"Until the appearance of the Journal of ApiProduct and ApiMedical Science in January 2009 the dissemination of scientific information on bee products had been a haphazard business with each report fitting in where it could in a spectrum of publications ranging from medicine to botany and food technology to agriculture. The Journal of Apicultural Research (the flagship journal for the International Bee Research Association) gave a platform for a large number of such papers many examples of which are reviewed here.","PeriodicalId":14866,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Apiproduct and Apimedical Science","volume":"86 1","pages":"105-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89865448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Testing the susceptibility to manuka honey of streptococci isolated from wound swabs","authors":"R. Cooper, E. Lindsay, P. Molan","doi":"10.3896/IBRA.4.03.3.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3896/IBRA.4.03.3.02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14866,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Apiproduct and Apimedical Science","volume":"8 10 1","pages":"117-122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89670987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Freitas, O. Barth, É. Sales, A. H. Matsuda, L. B. Almeida-Muradian
{"title":"A palynological analysis of Brazilian propolis samples","authors":"A. Freitas, O. Barth, É. Sales, A. H. Matsuda, L. B. Almeida-Muradian","doi":"10.3896/IBRA.4.03.2.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3896/IBRA.4.03.2.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14866,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Apiproduct and Apimedical Science","volume":"18 1","pages":"67-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83597576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}