Composition and properties of Apis mellifera honey: A review

AA Machado De-Melo… - Journal of apicultural …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Honey is a natural sweetener with a complex composition. Honey features vary depending
on the botanical source and geographical origin, as well as climatic, processing and storage …

[HTML][HTML] Honey: another alternative in the fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria?

P Combarros-Fuertes, JM Fresno, MM Estevinho… - Antibiotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Antibacterial resistance has become a challenging situation worldwide. The increasing
emergence of multidrug-resistant pathogens stresses the need for developing alternative or …

[HTML][HTML] Dissecting the antimicrobial composition of honey

VC Nolan, J Harrison, JAG Cox - Antibiotics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Honey is a complex sweet food stuff with well-established antimicrobial and antioxidant
properties. It has been used for millennia in a variety of applications, but the most noteworthy …

Biological properties and therapeutic activities of honey in wound healing: A narrative review and meta-analysis

A Oryan, E Alemzadeh, A Moshiri - Journal of tissue viability, 2016 - Elsevier
For thousands of years, honey has been used for medicinal applications. The beneficial
effects of honey, particularly its anti-microbial activity represent it as a useful option for …

Natural extracts for antibacterial applications

C Chen, L Chen, C Mao, L Jin, S Wu, Y Zheng, Z Cui… - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Bacteria‐induced epidemics and infectious diseases are seriously threatening the health of
people around the world. In addition, antibiotic therapy has been inducing increasingly more …

[HTML][HTML] Role of honey in advanced wound care

H Scepankova, P Combarros-Fuertes, JM Fresno… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Honey is a natural product rich in several phenolic compounds, enzymes, and sugars with
antioxidant, anticarcinogenic, anti-inflammatory, and antimicrobial potential. Indeed, the …

[HTML][HTML] The potential of honey as a prebiotic food to re-engineer the gut microbiome toward a healthy state

KR Schell, KE Fernandes, E Shanahan, I Wilson… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Honey has a long history of use for the treatment of digestive ailments. Certain honey types
have well-established bioactive properties including antibacterial and anti-inflammatory …

Quorum sensing in food spoilage and natural-based strategies for its inhibition

I Machado, LR Silva, ED Giaouris, LF Melo… - Food Research …, 2020 - Elsevier
Food can harbor a variety of microorganisms including spoilage and pathogenic bacteria.
Many bacterial processes, including production of degrading enzymes, virulence factors …

Methylglyoxal–a signaling molecule in plant abiotic stress responses

MG Mostofa, A Ghosh, ZG Li, MN Siddiqui… - Free Radical Biology …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abiotic stresses are the most common harmful factors, adversely affecting all aspects of
plants' life. Plants have to elicit appropriate responses against multifaceted effects of abiotic …

[HTML][HTML] Insects: an underrepresented resource for the discovery of biologically active natural products

L Seabrooks, L Hu - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2017 - Elsevier
Nature has been the source of life-changing and-saving medications for centuries. Aspirin,
penicillin and morphine are prime examples of Nature׳ s gifts to medicine. These discoveries …