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18427763

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-7-8
pubmed:abstractText
Propolis is a natural resinous product collected by honeybees from certain plants. It has gained popularity as a food and alternative medicine. Poplar and Baccharis are well known as the source plants of European and Brazilian propolis, respectively. However, the propolis from Okinawa, Japan, contains some prenylflavonoids not seen in other regions such as Europe and Brazil, suggesting that the plant origin of Okinawan propolis is a particular plant that grows in Okinawa. To identify the plant origin of Okinawan propolis, we observed the behavior of honeybees as they collected material from plants and caulked it inside the hive. Honeybees scraped resinous material from the surface of plant fruits of Macaranga tanarius and brought it back to their hive to use it as propolis. We collected samples of the plant and propolis, and compared their constituents by high-performance liquid chromatography with a photo-diode array detector. We also compared their 1,1-diphenyl-2-picryl-hydrazyl radical scavenging activity. The chemical constituents and biological activity of the ethanol extracts of the plant did not differ from those of propolis. This indicates directly that the plant origin of Okinawan propolis is M. tanarius.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0028-1042
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
95
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
781-6
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Plant origin of Okinawan propolis: honeybee behavior observation and phytochemical analysis.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, 422-8526, Japan. kumazawa@smail.u-shizuka-ken.ac.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't