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- Autophagy is a vital cellular process that helps maintain balance and remove damaged components, and its dysfunction is linked to diseases like cancer and metabolic syndromes.
- Studies suggest propolis, known for its antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties, may also influence autophagy, but this aspect hasn't been widely explored yet.
- This review aims to examine how propolis affects autophagy in biological models, which could lead to new propolis-based nutritional products and therapies.
Article Abstract
Autophagy is a degradation process that is evolutionarily conserved and is essential in maintaining cellular and physiological homeostasis through lysosomal removal and elimination of damaged peptides, proteins and cellular organelles. The dysregulation of autophagy is implicated in various diseases and disorders, including cancers, infection-related, and metabolic syndrome-related diseases. Propolis has been demonstrated in various studies including many human clinical trials to have antimicrobial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, immune-modulator, neuro-protective, and anti-cancer. Nevertheless, the autophagy modulation properties of propolis have not been extensively studied and explored. The role of propolis and its bioactive compounds in modulating cellular autophagy is possibly due to their dual role in redox balance and inflammation. The present review attempts to discuss the activities of propolis as an autophagy modulator in biological models in relation to various diseases/disorders which has implications in the development of propolis-based nutraceuticals, functional foods, and complementary therapies.
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