Table 3.
Health benefits | Propolis activity | Type of studies | Authors |
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Reproductive care | Antioxidant | Animals | El-Hanoun 2012 [108] |
Hormone balance | Animals | Imai et al. 2012 [109] | |
Antioxidative agent | Animals | Najafi et al. 2014 [107] | |
Reduce premenstrual syndrome | Humans | Taavoni et al. 2014 [105] | |
Postmenopausal treatment | Humans | Seyyedi et al. 2016 [106] | |
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Neurodegenerative and aging disease | Longevity promoting | Animals | Honda et al. 2011 [111] |
Alzheimer's disease | Animals | Zamani et al. 2012 [110] | |
Mental health | Human | Morita et al. 2012 [112] | |
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Wound healing | Fibroblast migration | Animals | Kim et al. 2010 [113] |
Collagen production | Human | Park et al. 2011 [114] | |
Vasodilatation | Human | Siavash et al. 2015 [115] |