Chromatographic analysis, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and xanthine oxidase inhibitory activities of ginger extracts and its reference compounds

Ginger, Zingiber officinale Roscoe, is a spice used as a medicinal plant in many countries. We are the first to report the HPTLC analysis of ginger extract and analysis of their active principles with comparative antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and xanthine oxidase inhibitory activities. The five fractions were obtained by using different polarity solvents with selective extraction procedure from ginger rhizomes and found that they revealed the...