Moise Adela Ramona, Bobiş Otilia
Department of Apiculture and Sericulture, Faculty of Animal Breeding and Biotechnologies, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, 400372 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Life Science Institute "King Michael I of Romania", University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, 400372 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Plants (Basel). 2020 Nov 21;9(11):1619. doi: 10.3390/plants9111619.
Nowadays, propolis is used as a highly valuable product in alternative medicine for improving health or treating a large spectrum of pathologies, an ingredient in pharmaceutical products, and also as a food additive. Different vegetal materials are collected by honeybees and mixed with wax and other own substances in order to obtain the final product, called propolis. It is known as the bee product with the widest chemical composition due to the raw material collected by the bees. Different types are known worldwide: green Brazilian propolis (having as the major plant source), red Brazilian propolis (from ), European propolis ( L.), Russian propolis (), Cuban and Venezuelan red propolis ( spp.), etc. An impressive number of scientific papers already demonstrate the pharmacological potential of different types of propolis, the most important activities being the antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, antitumor, immunomodulatory, and antioxidant activities. However, the bioactive compounds responsible for each activity have not been fully elucidated. This review aims to collect important data about the chemical composition and bioactive properties of the vegetal sources and to compare with the chemical composition of respective propolis types, in order to determine the connection between the floral source and the propolis properties.
如今，蜂胶在替代医学中被用作一种极具价值的产品，用于改善健康状况或治疗多种病症，它还是药品中的一种成分，同时也用作食品添加剂。蜜蜂采集不同的植物材料，并与蜂蜡及其他自身物质混合，以获得最终产品——蜂胶。由于蜜蜂采集的原材料不同，蜂胶被认为是化学成分最为多样的蜂产品。全球已知有不同类型的蜂胶：巴西绿蜂胶（主要植物来源为 ）、巴西红蜂胶（来自 ）、欧洲蜂胶（ ）、俄罗斯蜂胶（ ）、古巴和委内瑞拉红蜂胶（ 属植物）等。大量科学论文已证实不同类型蜂胶的药理潜力，其中最重要的活性包括抗菌、抗炎、抗肿瘤、免疫调节和抗氧化活性。然而，每种活性所对应的生物活性化合物尚未完全阐明。本综述旨在收集有关植物来源的化学成分和生物活性特性的重要数据，并与相应蜂胶类型的化学成分进行比较，以确定花源与蜂胶特性之间的联系。
