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 …

Dissecting the antimicrobial composition of honey

VC Nolan, J Harrison, JAG Cox - Antibiotics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Honey is a complex sweet food stuff with well-established antimicrobial and antioxidant
properties. It has been used for millennia in a variety of applications, but the most noteworthy …

Honey antibacterial activity: A neglected aspect of honey quality assurance as functional food

J Majtan, M Bucekova, I Kafantaris, P Szweda… - Trends in Food Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Honey is considered as a functional food with health-promoting properties. Its
potent antibacterial and antibiofilm effects are the major attributes of so called 'medical …

Antibacterial activity of different blossom honeys: New findings

M Bucekova, L Jardekova, V Juricova, V Bugarova… - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Antibacterial activity is the most investigated biological property of honey. The goal of this
study was to evaluate the antibacterial activity of 57 Slovak blossom honeys against …

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic manuka honey: no longer so alternative

DA Carter, SE Blair, NN Cokcetin, D Bouzo… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Medicinal honey research is undergoing a substantial renaissance. From a folklore remedy
largely dismissed by mainstream medicine as “alternative”, we now see increased interest …

Antimicrobial peptides derived from insects offer a novel therapeutic option to combat biofilm: A review

A Sahoo, SS Swain, A Behera, G Sahoo… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Biofilms form a complex layer with defined structures, that attach on biotic or abiotic surfaces,
are tough to eradicate and tend to cause some resistance against most antibiotics. Several …

Honey-based templates in wound healing and tissue engineering

BA Minden-Birkenmaier, GL Bowlin - Bioengineering, 2018 - mdpi.com
Over the past few decades, there has been a resurgence in the clinical use of honey as a
topical wound treatment. A plethora of in vitro and in vivo evidence supports this resurgence …

Biofilms in chronic wound infections: innovative antimicrobial approaches using the in vitro Lubbock chronic wound biofilm model

F Diban, S Di Lodovico, P Di Fermo, S D'Ercole… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Chronic wounds have harmful effects on both patients and healthcare systems. Wound
chronicity is attributed to an impaired healing process due to several host and local factors …

Advanced strategies for combating bacterial biofilms

JY Sharahi, T Azimi, A Shariati, H Safari… - Journal of cellular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Biofilms are communities of microorganisms that are formed on and attached to living or
nonliving surfaces and are surrounded by an extracellular polymeric material. Biofilm …

[HTML][HTML] Natural bioactive compounds of honey and their antimicrobial activity

N Feknous, M Boumendjel - Czech Journal of Food …, 2022 - cjfs.agriculturejournals.cz
Honey is a complex and variable mixture that contains more than 180 biochemical
compounds from various molecule families. This mixture is obtained after processing the …