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Título del libro: Stingless Bee Nest Cerumen And Propolis
Título del capítulo: Pharmaceutical stingless bees

Autores UNAM:
ELIA RAMIREZ ARRIAGA;
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Año de publicación:
2024
Palabras clave:

Axestotrigona ferruginea; Bioactivity; Cerumen; Friesemelitta varia; Geniotrigona thoracica; Heterotrigona itama; Lisotrigona furva; Medicinal; Melipona beecheii; Melipona favosa; Melipona quadrifasciata; Melipona scutellaris; Meliponini; Oxytrigona mellicolor; Palynology; Pollen; Propolis; Stingless bee honey; Stingless bees


Resumen:

Beneficial molecules for bee colony nutrition and health are also nutritional and medicinal for humans consuming bee products. Stingless bee species are a source of entomological variability in the honey and pollen they produce, besides the plants they forage and the microbial associations receiving particular attention in classic microbiology, food science, and pharmacy. Fifteen stingless bee taxa from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Tanzania, Thailand, Venezuela, and Vietnam were selected and reviewed. How stingless bees choose their raw materials from available plant resources is one aspect of their social behavior and phylogeny. Nectar or honeydew, pollen, and resin provide phytochemical active ingredients, and microbes are vectored by the bees for the nutritional and medicinal properties of substrates processed in the nest into pot-honey, pot-pollen, cerumen, and propolis. Ten functional metabolites putatively useful for stingless bees and humans showed the chemical diversity of pot-propolis. Morphologies of pollen grains found in honey, pollen, and propolis fingerprinted the botanical origin of stingless bee products common in tropical areas, but these are distinctive in certain biomes. Ethnomedicinal uses of pot-honey, pot-pollen, and pot-propolis of stingless bees were reviewed for different cultures. More robust analyses and detailed modes of administration are suggested. "Honey regulations" was the final topic. A binomial nomenclature may apparently focus on stingless bee honey (SBH) for regulatory applications, and pot-honey for interpreting their biochemical and physicochemical transformations, biological activities, and microbial processing. © The Author(s), 2024. All rights reserved.


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