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ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2017

Plants of the Genus Zingiber as a Source of Bioactive Phytochemicals: From Tradition to Pharmacy.

Mehdi Sharifi-Rad, Elena Maria Varoni, Bahare Salehi, Javad Sharifi-Rad, Karl R Matthews, Seyed Abdulmajid Ayatollahi, Farzad Kobarfard, Salam A Ibrahim, Dima Mnayer, Zainul Amiruddin Zakaria and 5 more

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Review in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 95 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

95 citing papers in PubMed.

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  20. Immunomodulatory Potential of 6-Gingerol and 6-Shogaol inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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35 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Mehdi Sharifi-RadDepartment of Medical Parasitology, Zabol University of Medical Sciences, Zabol 61663335, Iran. mehdi_sharifirad@yahoo.com.ORCID 0000-0001-8213-9097
Elena Maria VaroniDepartment of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, Milan State University, 20133 Milan, Italy. elena.varoni@unimi.it.ORCID 0000-0002-7287-2188
Bahare SalehiZabol Medicinal Plants Research Center, Zabol University of Medical Sciences, Zabol 61615585, Iran. bahar.salehi007@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-6900-9797
Javad Sharifi-RadPhytochemistry Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 11369, Iran. javad.sharifirad@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-7301-8151
Karl R MatthewsDepartment of Food Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA. bijan@sebs.rutgers.edu.
Seyed Abdulmajid AyatollahiPhytochemistry Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 11369, Iran. majid_ayatollahi@yahoo.com.
Farzad KobarfardPhytochemistry Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 11369, Iran. farzadkf@yahoo.com.
Salam A IbrahimFood Microbiology and Biotechnology Laboratory, 171 Carver Hall, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences North Carolina A & T State University, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA. ibrah001@ncat.edu.
Dima MnayerFaculty of Agricultural Engineering and Veterinary Medicine, Lebanese University, Dekwaneh, Beirut 6573, Lebanon. d_mnayer@yahoo.fr.
Zainul Amiruddin ZakariaDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Selangor, Malaysia. dr_zaz@yahoo.com.
Majid Sharifi-RadDepartment of Range and Watershed Management, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Zabol, Zabol 98615538, Iran. majid.sharifirad@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-4319-025X
Zubaida YousafDepartment of Botany, Lahore College for Women University, Jail Road Lahore 54000, Pakistan. mussabuswaeshal@hotmail.com.
Marcello IritiDepartment of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Milan State University, 20133 Milan, Italy. marcello.iriti@unimi.it.ORCID 0000-0002-5063-1236
Adriana BasileDepartment of Biological Sciences-Plant Biology Section, University of Naples "Federico II", 80126 Naples, Italy. adbasile@unina.it.
Daniela RiganoDepartment of Pharmacy, University of Naples Federico II, via D. Montesano 49, 80131 Naples, Italy. drigano@unina.it.ORCID 0000-0002-9176-8044

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plants of the genus Zingiber (Family Zingiberaceae) are widely used throughout the world as food and medicinal plants. They represent very popular herbal remedies in various traditional healing systems; in particular, rhizome of

Indexed as

Food PreservativesOils, VolatilePhytochemicalsZingiberaceaeFood PreservativesOils, VolatilePhytochemicalsessential oilfood preservativesgingerherbal remediesrhizometraditional healing systemsZingiber

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PMID29207520
PMCPMC6149881

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