Retraction Note: BMC Pharmacol Toxicol 20, 13 (2019)
10.1186/s40360-019-0292-z
The Editor has retracted this article at the Corresponding Author’s request. After publication, concerns were raised regarding image overlap between this article and a number of earlier publications [1–5]. Specifically:
Figure 10a appears highly similar to Fig. 6d in [1], Fig. 6 G1 in [2], Fig. 5a in [3], and Fig. 8a in [4]. Figure 10c, d and e appear highly similar to Fig. 10 G7, G5 and G3 in [5], respectively.
The Editor therefore no longer has confidence in the presented data.
Kamelia Saremi, Sima Kianpour Rad and Nazia Abdul Majid agree to this retraction. Faezeh Tayeby and Mahmood A. Abdulla have not responded to any correspondence from the publisher about this retraction. The publisher has not been able to obtain a current email address for Hamed Karimian.
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