BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies (2013) 13:222.
10.1186/1472-6882-13-222
The Editor has retracted this article because of concerns with four of the figures, namely:
Overlapping images in panels D and E in Fig. 23.
Overlapping images in panels A and F in Fig. 25.
Images in panels C,D, E and F in Fig. 18 are used in [1] which reports the results of a different experiment.
Images in panels A and C in Fig. 24 and panels A, E and F in Fig. 25 are used in [2] which reports the results of a different experiment.
The Editor therefore no longer has confidence in the results and conclusions presented. Firoz Anwar disagrees with this retraction. Vikas Kumar, Danish Amar, Pushpraj S. Gupta and Mohd Mujeeb have not responded to correspondence from the Editor about this retraction.
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