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Honey bees, Apis mellifera var ligustica, on Kangaroo Island, Australia, were found to collect propolis from the sticky exudate on the stem shoots and seed pods of an Australian endemic plant, Acacia paradoxa. Extracts of the plant stem shoots and seed pods, the propolis carried on the legs of bees and freshly collected propolis in hives contained major flavonoid components consisting of 2',3',4'-trimethoxychalcone, 2'-hydroxy-3',4'-dimethoxychalcone, 2',4'-dihydroxy-3'-methoxychalcone, 5,7-dihydroxy-2,3-dihydroflavonol 3-acetate (pinobanksin 3-acetate) and 5,7-dihydroxy-6-methoxy-2,3-dihydroflavonol 3-acetate, a substance not previously characterized. HPLC and (1)H NMR analyses of the propolis and plant extracts indicated smaller amounts of other flavonoids. A survey of propolis samples from 47 apiary sites widely distributed on Kangaroo Island showed that 15 samples from 6 sites were largely sourced from A. paradoxa.
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PMID:Propolis with high flavonoid content collected by honey bees from Acacia paradoxa. 2278 52

We read Cosansu's commentary entitled ''Hematological parameters in patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria'' to our study with a great interest. The author noted that monocytes increased in inflammatory diseases such as urticaria but decreased after treatment. She argued that NMR was not used as an inflammatory marker in previous studies, so that NMR should not be used to evaluate the response to omalizumab treatment in urticaria and decreased by chance. We thank the author for her interest in our article.
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PMID:Comment on ''how does omalizumab affect the immunoinflammatory response in patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria?'': reply from author. 3180 3