Bee Products: Recent Progress in Health Benefits Studies, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 90
Special Issue Editors
2. School of Medicine, Catholic University of Croatia, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Interests: neuroprotection; neurotoxicity; neurodegenerative diseases; oxidative stress; polyphenols; neuropharmacology
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Interests: oxidative stress-induced diseases; natural products; chemoprevention and tumor therapy; bee products and health; radioprotection
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Interests: honeybee products; wound healing; antibacterial activity; immunomodulation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Apitherapy is the science of prolonging, sustaining, and retaining health by using products obtained from honeybees, such as honey, bee bread, bee venom, bee pollen, propolis, and royal jelly, serving as nutritious food and health products. Bee hive products are mainly collected in nature and originate from the broad kingdom of herbs and trees. After some preparations with enzymes and fatty acids secreted from salivary, hypopharyngeal and mandibular bee glands, bee products are deposited into hives and used either for protection against microorganisms or as a food for the bee colony. From a human perspective, there has been a revival of interest in the medical properties of honeybee products in recent times because they exhibit a broad spectrum of biological activities, including antibacterial, antifungal, cytostatic, wound healing, antitumor, antiallergic, anti-inflammatory, antioxidative, antidiabetic, immunomodulatory, cardioprotective, antiaging, neuroprotective, and radioprotective activities, as well as the control of pain and inflammation in various chronic inflammatory diseases. Accordingly, biomedical scientists have been taking an interest in the medical importance of honeybee products. Currently, many studies are directed towards investigating the health benefits and pharmacological properties of bee products and their ability to reduce chronic disease risks or optimize health in other ways.
There is growing recognition that the polyphenolic compounds present in most plants and bee products may have a beneficial effect on human health. Taking into consideration that the daily human diet includes the intake of large amounts of flavonoids, it is logical to take an interest in their application and potential biological impacts based on their unique structure. Scientific approaches using different bioassays define the potency and efficacy of using honeybee products and their compounds, including flavonoids, as medicines. The emergence of more sophisticated knowledge of chemistry and pharmacology enables the extraction and identification of the active agent(s) and brings the possibility of its/their synthesis afterwards. However, the problem associated with the use of honeybee products is related to the presence of more than one active ingredient with quite different pharmacological profiles, all of which must be present in the correct proportions to achieve the optimal effects.
This Special Issue comprehensively highlights the newest discoveries and benefits of honeybee products and their ingredients on many aspects of physiological and pathophysiological processes in mammals.
We cordially invite authors to contribute original articles and reviews that bring new insights into scientific progress and provide an in-depth explanation of the mechanisms of action of honeybee products and their active compounds that hopefully will contribute to potential clinical application in the prevention and treatment of numerous chronic diseases.
Dr. Maja Jazvinšćak Jembrek
Prof. Dr. Nada Orsolic
Dr. Juraj Majtan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- honey bee products
- bioactive compounds
- biological and phamacological activity
- health benefits
- side effects of honey bee products
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