Bee Pollen – A Potential Therapeutic Agent

Year 2019, Volume: 28 Issue: 2, 156 - 160, 30.06.2019

Ali Korhan Sig

Abstract

Honeybee products including bee pollen (BP) have
been a topic of interest by medical professionals for a long time. Recently,
many studies revealed many natural compounds in BP that has a huge potential to
express many therapeutic activities. Although in vivo studies are too few, there is wide variability on BP
compounds due to several factors such as geographic and climate conditions, and
there is a lack of standardization for the studies; nutritious, anti-microbial, anti-mutagenic, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory,
anti-atherosclerotic,
hypolipidemic, hypoglycemic, fibrinolytic effects and inhibitor activity to
platelet aggregation were observed. So, BP holds the potential of being a major
therapeutic agent, and to be a topic of medical scientific research.

Keywords

Bee Pollen; Apitherapy; Biopharmaceuticals; Honey-bee products

Arı Poleni – Potansiyel Bir Terapötik Ajan

Abstract

Arı
poleninin de aralarında buluduğu arı ürünleri uzun yıllardan beri sağlık
camiasının ilgi alanlarından biri olmuştur. Son yıllardaki çalışmalarda, arı
poleninin terapötik aktivite potensiyeli taşıyan çok sayıda içerik barındırdığı
gösterilmiştir. Her ne kadar in vivo çalışmalar sınırlı sayıda olsa da, coğrafi
ve iklim koşullarına gore polen içeriğinde ciddi farklılıklar gözlense de ve
yapılan çalışmalarda standardizasyon sorunu olsa da; arı poleninin, besleyici, anti-mikrobiyal, anti-mutajenik, antioksidan, anti-inflamatuvar,
anti-aterosklerotik,
hipolipidemik, hipoglisemik, fibrinolitik ve platelet aggregasyonunu inhibe
edici etkileri gözlenmiştir. Bu kapsamda, arı poleninin ciddi bir terapötik
ajan olabilme potansiyeli taşıyan ve tıbbi bilimsel çalışmalara aday bir doğal
ürün olduğu değerlendirilmektedir.

Keywords

Arı poleni; Apiterapi; Biyofarmasötikler; Arı ürünleri

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