title: [Fingerprint comparison of mountain cultivated ginseng and wild ginseng by HPLC].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To establish the fingerprint of mountain cultivated ginseng by HPLC and compare the fingerprint with that of wild ginseng for the quality control.
  
  
  METHODS
  The analysis was carried out on a ZORBAX Eclipse XDB-C18 column (150 mm x 4.6 mm, 5 microm) with a mobile phase consisting of water-acetonitrile with gradient elution, and the flow rate was 1 mL/min. The column temperature was set at (30 +/- 0.15) degrees C and UV detection wavelength was set at 203 nm.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were 15 common peaks in the fingerprint of mountain cultivated ginseng. The similarities of 10 batches ginseng were between 0.90 and 1.00.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This method has good characteristics and specificity, and could be used for quality control of mountain cultivated ginseng. The type and content of components in wild ginseng were slightly higher than those in mountain cultivation ones.
authors.affiliation: Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang 110016, China.
authors.forename: Shi-Yi
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Guo-Xiang
authors.initials: GX
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Shan-Xue
authors.initials: SX
authors.lastname: Mu
authors.forename: Qi-Shi
authors.initials: QS
authors.lastname: Sun
mesh_terms: D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods*; D004355:Drug Stability; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000032:analysis* / Q000592:standards; D000431:Ethanol / Q000737:chemistry; D005894:Panax / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000254:growth & development; D018517:Plant Roots / Q000737:chemistry; D011786:Quality Control; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D000431:Ethanol