2020 Cilt 20 Sayı 2

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Determination of pediatric nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and experiences on apitherapy: A cross-sectional multicenter study
(Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2020-09-29) Cırık, Vildan Apaydın; Aksoy, Bahar
Honey production and beekeeping practices are more common in the Eastern Black Sea region. This study was conducted to determine the knowledge, experience and attitudes the use of personal and professional apitherapy of pediatric nurses working in the pediatric clinics of the largest hospitals in the Eastern Black Sea region. The study was conducted with 227 pediatric nurses who volunteered to participate in the study, working in six hospitals in Turkey's Eastern Black Sea region. In this study, there is a correlation between gender, having child, clinical experience, and the use of apitherapy. Honey is the most common apitherapeutic product used by nurses both for personal (40,4%) and clinical use (39,1%). Nurses stated that they do not know bee venom, and they know very little about propolis and royal jelly. The nurses listed their positive experiences concerning honey’s capacity to “alleviate cough symptoms, treat gastritis, strengthen immune system, effectively heal wounds and burns” and their negative experiences concerning its side effects, such as allergy, dizziness, headache, and itching”. It is important that nurses take responsibility for the apitherapy method included in complementary and alternative medicine methods and that nurses can use evidence-based apitherapy methods. It was recommended that nurses should be knowledgeable and careful about the benefits and side effects of apitherapy.
The effects of supplemental feeding with sodium humate on the performance of honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera L.)
(Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2020-09-29) Tunç, Muhammet Ali; Cengiz, Mahir Murat; Yazıcı, Kemal; Turan, Metin
In plant and animal production, sodium or potassium compounds which are soluble forms of humic substances are used. Sodium humates are used because of the sodium content which is important for animals in animal production. This study was carried out to investigate the effects of sodium humate added to sugar syrup in the development of adult honey bees, brood production and honey yield. Experimental colonies were randomly selected, and 5 study groups were formed with 6 colonies in each group. In the study, 4 different doses of sodium humate (5 cc, 10 cc, 20 cc, 50 cc/L and control 0 cc/L) were added to 1 liter 1:1 ratio of sucrose syrup and given to the experimental colonies. The highest brood production was obtained at a dose of 10 cc. In addition to, high dose (50 cc) negatively affected brood production. The average honey yield for the 5 cc, 10 cc, 20 cc, 50 cc and control groups was determined as 19.15±1.48, 26.35±1,83, 22.50±1.86, 8.75±1.29 and, 18.50±1.57 kg/colony, respectively. The highest honey yield was obtained from the group of 10 cc. For this group, the honey yield was 29.79 % higher than the control group.
Foraging performance of honeybee (Apis mellifera) affected by food richness and experience
(Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2020-08-29) Sharif, Muhammad Zahid; Xue, Renjie; Puswa, Sabah Mushtaq
For honeybees (Apis mellifera), food richness and experience have significant impacts on making foraging decisions. Bees that trace food-rich source they start establishing spatiotemporal memories, which assist them in revisit the particular site on following days. The present study explored whether different levels of food richness (10%, 30%, and 50% sugar solution, and unrewarding situation) at a feeding source affect the number of forager bees for their visitation and how the previous experiences affect bees for their foraging duration. More bees persist visiting food-rich sources. However, the diminution in food richness consequence a gradual decline in the number of bees, but they persistently visiting feeding sites for several days, even if unrewarded with food-rich sources. Regardless of comparison with the bees visiting a low sugar solution, the number of bees visiting higher sugar solution decreases with the time. The foraging efficiency of bees in terms of trip duration also increased with the experiences of previous visits. In conclusion, bees exhibit considerable attachment with experienced feeding sites that stop providing food anymore, and the duration of the foraging trip decreases with the experience (19 to 2 min one-way trip for 251 m distance). We, in our current findings, confer the implications for future investigation on the research gap concerning the altering foraging situations.
Geographical fingerprint of astragalus (Astragalus Microcephalus Willd.) honey supplied from Erzincan region of Turkey
(Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2020-05-06) Kara, Yakup; Şahin, Hüseyin; Kolaylı, Sevgi
The composition and biological value of honey vary depending on its producing flora. The botanical, chemical and biological active properties of honey determine the geographical authenticity of the honey. In this study, geographic fingerprints of thirty Astragalus (Astragalus microcephalus Willd.) honeys from Erzincan region were investigated. The honey consists of Astragalus pollen more than 65% and others were Salix spp., Cistaceae, Trifolium spp., Thymus spp, Rosaceae, Papaveraceae, Onobrychis spp. etc. The characteristic color of the analyzed honeys was bright/light yellow, Hunter color values (L, a, b) were found to be as L: 72-78, a: 7-16 and b: 58-78, respectively. Total polyphenol content of the honeys was 38.20±4.60 mg gallic acid equivalent (GAE)/100 g, it was found to be rich in some phenolics such as chrysin, caffeic acid phenyl ester, myricetin, pinocembrin, luteolin, and gallic acid.
A study on free-radical scavenging activity, individual phenolic compounds and element concentration of propolis
(Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2020-09-29) Bayram, Nesrin Ecem
The aim of this study was to assess the quality of five propolis samples obtained from Turkey (TP), China (CP), Brazil (BP1, BP2), and Ethiopia (EP). The phenolic compounds of the propolis were identified and quantified using the liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry technique (LCMS/MS). In addition, quality parameters such as total flavonoid content, total phenolic content, freeradical scavenging activity and element contents were investigated. As a result of LC-MS/MS analysis, the extracts were sorted as TP> BP1> BP2> CP> EP in terms of the total concentration of individual phenolic compounds. Chlorogenic acid was determined as the dominant compound in BP1 and EP, pcoumaric acid as the dominant compound in the BP2 and trans-ferulic acid as the dominant compound in the samples from CP and TP. The concentration of DPPH was higher in TP whereas the ABTS concentration was almost similar to other propolis extracts. The contents of potassium (K), calcium (Ca), iron (Fe), magnesium (Mg) and sodium (Na) in the propolis samples were in the range of 2416.75- 14416.02 mg/kg, 8.52-613.25 mg/kg, 102.66-1425.82 mg/kg, 523.84-7336.74 mg/kg and 57.65-191.15 mg/kg, respectively. Consequently, it is again supported that chemical characteristics and activity of propolis varies according to its geographical origin with this study.

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