BACKGROUND/AIM Our objective was to identify the antioxidant properties of honeybee products from Turkey, chestnut honey, pollen, propolis, and royal jelly, and their hepatoprotective activity against CCl4-induced hepatic damage in rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS Animals were fed with honeybee products for 7 days following CCl4 injection. Development of liver damage and oxidative stress were moni...

Every year, more than 12 million people are diagnosed with cancer worldwide. Cancer diagnosis is difficult for anybody to bear, and dealing treatment sometimes complicated the disease itself. When it comes choices, chemotherapy most well-known since frequently used recommended by specialists all over world. On other hand, recognized destroying healthy cells, this destruction led several negativ...

This research was carried out to examine the opinions of migratory beekeepers in Afyonkarahisar regarding current situation and problems sector. A total 37 items were assembled under four subgroups questionnaire collect data. The applied through face-to-face interviews with during visits apiaries enterprises. emphasized that marketing is most crucial problem. They stressed a small number interm...

Objective: In several nations, royal jelly is used in apitherapy, healthful foods, and cosmetics. The production quality of collected from honeybee colonies are being worked on by researchers beekeepers. This study investigated the effect honey pollen substitute feeding efficiency jelly. addition, analyses were conducted to determine differences between fed unfed groups terms 10-hydroxy-2-decon...

  Honey bee sting is used in some societies as a treatment of inflammation in joint diseases such as arthritis. To investigate the effect of honey bee venom in reducing inflammation, we selected 30 male Wister rats which were divided in to 6 groups. Except group 1, all remaining groups received 0.5 ml of complete Freund’s adjuvant to induce arthritis. After 9 days, all animals that received adj...

The ethnopharmacological approach combined with chemical and biological methods can be a useful model in the field of pharmacology. One these approaches, apitherapy, is use bee hive products for therapeutic purposes. Propolis among best known products. composition propolis varies according to local or endemic flora, species, geographical origin season. This study determine antimicrobial activit...

Bee pollen has been used as an apitherapy agent for several centuries to treat burns, wounds, gastrointestinal disorders, and various other diseases. The aim of our study was to investigate the hepatoprotective effects of chestnut bee pollen against carbon tetrachloride (CCI4)-induced liver damage. Total phenolic content, flavonoid, ferric reducing/antioxidant power, and DPPH radical activity m...