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. 2025 Jan 24;13(2):85. doi: 10.3390/toxics13020085

RETRACTED: Di Paola et al. Environmental Risk Assessment of Dexamethasone Sodium Phosphate and Tocilizumab Mixture in Zebrafish Early Life Stage (Danio rerio). Toxics 2022, 10, 279

Davide Di Paola 1, Jessica Maria Abbate 2, Carmelo Iaria 1, Marika Cordaro 3, Rosalia Crupi 2, Rosalba Siracusa 1, Ramona D’Amico 1, Roberta Fusco 1, Daniela Impellizzeri 1, Salvatore Cuzzocrea 1,4,*, Nunziacarla Spanò 2,*, Enrico Gugliandolo 2,, Alessio Filippo Peritore 1,
PMCID: PMC11764556  PMID: 39853371

The journal retracts the article “Environmental risk assessment of mixture of COVID-19 treating pharmaceutical drugs in zebrafish early life stage (Danio rerio)” [1], cited above.

Following publication, concerns were brought to the attention of the Editorial Office regarding the duplication of images contained within this publication [1].

Adhering to our complaints procedure, an investigation was conducted by the Editorial Office and the Editorial Board that confirmed the duplication of a number of panels contained within Figures 1 and 3 presenting different experimental conditions. Following discussions with the authors, the Editorial Board were unable accept the explanation provided or verify the validity of the above-mentioned images. Consequently, the Editorial Board has lost confidence in the reliability of the findings and decided to retract this publication [1], as per MDPI’s retraction policy (https://www.mdpi.com/ethics#_bookmark30).

This retraction was approved by the Editor-in Chief of the journal Toxics.

The authors did not agree to this retraction.

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Reference

  • 1.Paola D.D., Abbate J.M., Iaria C., Cordaro M., Crupi R., Siracusa R., D’Amico R., Fusco R., Impellizzeri D., Cuzzocrea S., et al. RETRACTED: Environmental Risk Assessment of Dexamethasone Sodium Phosphate and Tocilizumab Mixture in Zebrafish Early Life Stage (Danio rerio) Toxics. 2022;10:6. doi: 10.3390/toxics10060279. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar] [Retracted]

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