ReviewJournal of cancer prevention2020
Chemopreventive and Chemotherapeutic Effect of Propolis and Its Constituents: A Mini-review.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 55 citations in OpenAlex.
- Quercetin as a Therapeutic Agent for Oral Cancer: Current Evidence and Future Directions.Asia-Pacific journal of clinical oncology · 2026Review
- Health Effects of Bee Products: A Comprehensive Review.Food science & nutrition · 2026Review
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- Effects of propolis intake on endurance exercise and molecular signaling related to inflammation and oxidative stress.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Review
- Potential Antitumor Mechanism of Propolis Against Skin Squamous Cell Carcinoma A431 Cells Based on Untargeted Metabolomics.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Propolis: a natural compound with potential as an adjuvant in cancer therapy - a review of signaling pathways.Molecular biology reports · 2024Review
- Antitumor Effects and the Potential Mechanism of 10-HDA against SU-DHL-2 Cells.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Hive Products: Composition, Pharmacological Properties, and Therapeutic Applications.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- An Examination of the Effects of Propolis and Quercetin in a Rat Model of Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy.Current issues in molecular biology · 2024Article
- Antineoplastic Activity Evaluation of Brazilian Brown Propolis and Artepillin C in Colorectal Area of Wistar Rats.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2024Article
- Cancer Patients' Use of Apitherapy as Supportive Care: An Exploratory Study.The Eurasian journal of medicine · 2024Article
- In vitro and in vivo anti-colorectal cancer effect of the newly synthesized sericin/propolis/fluorouracil nanoplatform through modulation of PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The Effects of Propolis Consumption on Body Composition and Blood Pressure: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis.Current therapeutic research, clinical and experimental · 2024Review
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- Propolis-loaded nanostructured lipid carriers halt breast cancer progression through miRNA-223 related pathways: an in-vitro/in-vivo experiment.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Baicalein Inhibits α-Melanocyte-stimulating Hormone-stimulated Melanogenesis via p38 Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase Pathway in B16F10 Mouse Melanoma Cells.Journal of cancer prevention · 2023Article
- Propolis: A Detailed Insight of Its Anticancer Molecular Mechanisms.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Anticancer Effects of Propolis Extracts Obtained Using the Cold Separation Method on Breast Cancer Cell Lines.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Propolis and Their Active Constituents for Chronic Diseases.Biomedicines · 2023Review
- Antineoplastic and Antitrypanosomal Properties of Propolis fromMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Propolis is a bee wax rich in various phytocomponents and traditionally used to treat various ailments. Propolis is reported to possess an array of biological properties including anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-cancer, and anti-diabetic as well as cardioprotective, hepatoprotective, renoprotective, and derma protective activities. A plethora of studies confirmed that propolis is effective against various types of cancer including head and neck, lung, liver, brain (glioma), pancreas, kidney, prostate, skin (melanoma), breast, oral, esophagus, gastric, colorectal, and bladder cancers. However, many researchers have demonstrated that propolis displays potent chemoprotective/chemopreventive or anti-cancer activity against only a few types of cancers like oral, gastrointestinal, dermal (melanoma), breast, and prostate cancers. Therefore, this mini-review only summarizes the chemopreventive/chemotherapeutic activities of propolis and its updated underlying mechanisms. Taken together, propolis displays potent chemoprotective or anti-cancer effect due to the presence of various phytocomponents which contribute to pro-apoptotic, cytotoxic, anti-proliferative (cell cycle arrest), anti-metastatic, anti-invasive, anti-angiogenic and anti-genotoxic or anti-mutagenic properties along with antioxidant, immunomodulatory, and anti-inflammatory functions. Hence, propolis could be used as an adjuvant for treating various cancers along with standard chemotherapeutic drugs. However, many large-scale clinical studies are needed to justify such applications.
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