Retraction Note: BMC Complement Med Ther 13, 183 (2013)
10.1186/1472-6882-13-183
The Editors retracted this article because of concerns regarding a number of figures presented in this work. These concerns call into question the article’s overall scientific soundness and its authorship. An investigation conducted after its publication discovered similarities between images in this work and images in [1] and [2],
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The bottom part of panel F in Fig. 5 and the top part of panel E in Fig. 4 in [2];
The Editors therefore no longer have confidence in the integrity of the research presented in this article. Jamuna Vadivelu and Mun Fai Loke agree with the retraction. The remaining authors have not responded to correspondence from the Publisher about the retraction.
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