Organisms' lifespans are modulated by both genetic and environmental factors. The lifespan of eusocial insects is determined by features of the division of labor, which itself is influenced by social regulatory mechanisms. In the honey bee, Apis mellifera, the presence of brood and of old workers carrying out foraging tasks are important social drivers of ageing, but the influence of young adul...

AIM Implant-related infections are still a significant problem in spinal surgical procedures. Many drugs and methods have been tried to prevent implant-related infections. Our objective in this study was to evaluate whether royal jelly, which was found to hinder the growth of MRSA, has any preventive role in the prognosis of an infection in rats in an implant-related infection model. MATERIAL...

Insects and insect-derived products have been widely used in folk healing in many parts of the world since ancient times. Promising treatments have at least preliminarily been studied experimentally. Maggots and honey have been used to heal chronic and post-surgical wounds and have been shown to be comparable to conventional dressings in numerous settings. Honey has also been applied to treat b...

Whole royal jelly, when premixed with tumor cells before inoculation, has been shown to inhibit completely the development of transplantable AKR leukemia and of three lines of mouse ascitic tumors. Fractionation studies have established that all, or nearly all, of the in vitro antitumor activity of whole royal jelly can be accounted for in the major component of the ether-soluble fatty acid fra...

Honey is a bee product relatively expensive; therefore, it has been target of adulteration by many sweeteners. In this work, we evaluated the good quality, authenticity, and content in bioactive molecules twenty-two Moroccan honey from different botanical origins geographical areas. For that, following analyses were determined: total protein especially major royal jelly (apalbumin 1), analysis ...

Bee bread (BB) is a fermented mixture of plant pollen, honey, and bee saliva that worker bees use as food for larvae, and for young bees to produce royal jelly. In the present study, five BB samples, collected from Apis mellifera iberiensis hives located in different apiaries near Bragança, in the northeast region of Portugal, and one BB commercial sample were characterized by high-performance ...

objective: this study aimed to evaluate the effects of royal jelly (rj) on serum biochemical alterations and oxidative stress status in liver and pancreas of streptozotocin (stz)- induced diabetic rats. materials and methods: in this experimental study, thirty two male wistar rats were divided into the following four groups (n=8/group): i. control (c), ii. diabetic (d), iii. royal jelly (r), an...

background: royal jelly has been shown to have antioxidant and antidiabetic effects. the objective of this study was to evaluate the protective effect of rj against kidney damage in streptozotocin induced diabetic rats. methods: thirty two male wistar rats were divided randomly into four groups (n=8 per group). normal control and diabetic control groups received 1cc/day distilled water, normal ...