Properties of honey from ten species of Peruvian stingless bees

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1221-1226

  Rodríguez Malaver, Antonio J ^a   Rasmussen, Claus ^b   Gutiérrez, María G ^c   Gil, Florimar ^c   Nieves, Beatriz ^c   Vit, Patricia ^c  

^a Universidad De Los Andes Facultad de Medicina   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOS   (Peru)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Antibacterial; Antioxidant; Color; Honey; Meliponini; Moisture; Peru

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; FLAVONOID; GALLIC ACID; NITRITE; POLYPHENOL; PROTEIN; QUERCETIN; TROLOX C; NITRATE;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HONEY; HONEYBEE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOISTURE; NONHUMAN; PERU; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STINGLESS BEE; ANIMAL; BEE; COLOR;

APIS MELLIFERA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MELIPONA; MELIPONINAE; NANNOTRIGONA; PARTAMONA; SCAPTOTRIGONA; SCAURA LATITARSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TETRAGONISCA ANGUSTULA;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BEES; COLOR; FLAVONOIDS; HONEY; NITRATES; PERU;

EID: 73349101425     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x0900400913     Document Type: Article

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