Honey: An advanced antimicrobial and wound healing biomaterial for tissue engineering applications

J Yupanqui Mieles, C Vyas, E Aslan, G Humphreys… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Honey was used in traditional medicine to treat wounds until the advent of modern medicine.
The rising global antibiotic resistance has forced the development of novel therapies as …

Honey: another alternative in the fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria?

P Combarros-Fuertes, JM Fresno, MM Estevinho… - Antibiotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Antibacterial resistance has become a challenging situation worldwide. The increasing
emergence of multidrug-resistant pathogens stresses the need for developing alternative or …

A review of commonly used methodologies for assessing the antibacterial activity of honey and honey products

ML Hossain, LY Lim, K Hammer, D Hettiarachchi… - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Honey, a naturally sweet and viscous substance is mainly produced by honeybees (Apis
mellifera) from flower nectar. Honey exerts a plethora of biological and pharmacological …

Antioxidant activity and phenolic compound identification and quantification in western australian honeys

IL Lawag, MK Islam, T Sostaric, LY Lim, K Hammer… - Antioxidants, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study reports on the total phenolic content and antioxidant activity as well as the
phenolic compounds that are present in Calothamnus spp.(Red Bell), Agonis flexuosa …

Honey as an ecological reservoir of antibacterial compounds produced by antagonistic microbial interactions in plant nectars, honey and honey bee

K Brudzynski - Antibiotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
The fundamental feature of “active honeys” is the presence and concentration of
antibacterial compounds. Currently identified compounds and factors have been described …

The osmotic action of sugar combined with hydrogen peroxide and bee-derived antibacterial peptide Defensin-1 is crucial for the antibiofilm activity of eucalyptus …

A Proaño, D Coello, I Villacrés-Granda, I Ballesteros… - LWT, 2021 - Elsevier
Honey is known for its important antimicrobial activity, which is considered one of its main
biological properties. This property has been associated with different factors, among which …

Chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of new honey varietals

M Kunat-Budzyńska, A Rysiak, A Wiater… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Due to a widespread occurrence of multidrug-resistant pathogenic strains of bacteria, there
is an urgent need to look for antimicrobial substances, and honey with its antimicrobial …

A comprehensive survey of phenolic constituents reported in Monofloral honeys around the globe

IL Lawag, LY Lim, R Joshi, KA Hammer, C Locher - Foods, 2022 - mdpi.com
The aim of this review is to provide a comprehensive overview of the large variety of
phenolic compounds that have to date been identified in a wide range of monofloral honeys …

Anti-biofilm effects and characterisation of the hydrogen peroxide activity of a range of Western Australian honeys compared to Manuka and multifloral honeys

A Sindi, MVB Chawn, ME Hernandez, K Green… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The antibacterial activity of honeys derived from the endemic flora of the southwest corner of
Western Australia, including the trees Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) and Marri (Corymbia …

The development and application of a HPTLC-derived database for the identification of phenolics in honey

IL Lawag, T Sostaric, LY Lim, K Hammer, C Locher - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study reports on the development and validation of a HPTLC-derived database to
identify phenolic compounds in honey. Two database sets are developed to contain the …