Propolis Cyclodextrin Inclusion Can Fight Stomach Cancer

Cyclodextrin, due to its hydrophobic and hydrophilic circular structure, can entrapped many organic compounds and inorganic compounds. As a quality improver, stabilizer, drug carrier and adsorbent, it plays an important role in food, medicine, chemical industry and environmental protection.
The day before, on the international market there have been some containing cyclodextrin or cyclodextrin using technology to produce food, according to a recent "magazine" food science, New Zealand propolis tincture and resin rich compounds have anti gastric cancer activity in vitro. However, due to the spicy taste and aroma of propolis tincture, is limited to the food acceptability. Researchers from New Zealand honey Newcombe Co. Ltd and New Zealand Callaghan Innovation Institute has made New Zealand propolis cyclodextrin complexes (CD) to solve the problems of acceptability, and these complexes were tested in vitro bioassay using anti human cancers of the digestive tract, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant assay. The propolis cyclodextrin complex can inhibit the proliferation of 4 human gastrointestinal cancer cell lines and increase the inhibition with the prolonged exposure time.