Pharmacological potentials of Propolis in urban landscapes

TC Puspha; MS Reddy

doi:10.30574/gscbps.2019.8.1.0116

Authors

TC Puspha Department of Zoology, Maharanis Science College for Women, Palace Road, Bangalore-560001 India.
MS Reddy Department of Zoology, Bangalore University, Jnana Bharathi, Bangalore-560056, India.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30574/gscbps.2019.8.1.0116

Keywords:

Propolis, Pollination, Urban landscape

Abstract

Propolis is a resinous material produced by bees from the selective collection of plant exudates that are subsequently mixed with bee’s wax and salivary bee secretions. Propolis has been used in folk medicine, and certainly, several studies have validated its biological properties. The chemical composition and pharmacological activities of Propolis collected around urban land scape of Bangalore and have been studied in 2018-2019. There are remarkable differences in the biological activities of Propolis from dissimilar geographical origin, and those mainly depend on the qualitative and quantitative variations of its characteristic chemical constituents, which are provided by botanical sources. Herein, we investigated pharmacological potentials Propolis in urban landscapes.

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