TY - JOUR AU - Wang, Xue AU - Sankarapandian, Karuppasamy AU - Cheng, Yizhe AU - Woo, Soon Ok AU - Kwon, Hyung Wook AU - Perumalsamy, Haribalan AU - Ahn, Young-Joon PY - 2016 DA - 2016/02/18 TI - Relationship between total phenolic contents and biological properties of propolis from 20 different regions in South Korea JO - BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine SP - 65 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - Propolis (or bee glue), collected from botanical sources by honey bee, has been used as a popular natural remedies in folk medicine throughout the world. This study was conducted to assess growth inhibitory effects of ethanol extracts of propolis (EEPs) from 20 different regions in South Korea on human intestinal bacteria as well as their human β-amyloid precursor cleavage enzyme (BACE-1), acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitory, antioxidant, antiproliferative, and anti-human rhinovirus activities. SN - 1472-6882 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12906-016-1043-y DO - 10.1186/s12906-016-1043-y ID - Wang2016 ER -