Artigo Acesso aberto Produção Nacional Revisado por pares

Própolis: 100 anos de pesquisa e suas perspectivas futuras

2002; Brazilian Chemical Society; Volume: 25; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0100-40422002000200021

ISSN

1678-7064

Autores

Alberto dos Santos Pereira, Fernando Rodrigues Mathias Silva Seixas, Francisco Radler de Aquino Neto,

Tópico(s)

Agricultural and Food Sciences

Resumo

RESEARCH AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES.Propolis is a multifunctional material used by bees in the construction and maintenance of their hives.The chemical composition and pharmacological properties have been studied for centuries.Today they represent an important raw material for many health products and constitute a new interdisciplinary area for research.Among others they show important antimicrobial and cytotoxic activities and various pharmacological properties.This paper presents an overview of the scientific literature and patents concerning propolis.

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