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. 2025 Mar 12;11(6):e43154. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e43154

Retraction notice to "Combination therapy with Hordeum vulgare, Elettaria cardamomum, and Cicer arietinum exhibited anti-diabetic potential through modulation of oxidative stress and proinflammatory cytokines" [Heliyon 10 (2024) e26126]

Rabia Iqbal a, Iqbal Azhar a, Muhammad Furqan Akhtar b,, Zafar Alam Mahmood a, Irfan Hamid c, Ammara Saleem d, Ejaz Basheer e, Gaber El-Saber Batiha f, Ahmed M El-Gazzar g,h, Mohamed H Mahmoud i
PMCID: PMC11948596  PMID: 40201512

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier policy on article withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/article-withdrawal).

This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor.

The authors have plagiarized part of a paper that had already appeared in BioMed Research International, Volume (2022), Article ID 2614599, https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/2614599; International Journal of Inammation, Volume (2021), Article ID 9778486, https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/9778486; Inflammopharmacol, Volume 28 (2020), 16331648, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10787-020-00688-5. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited.

Furthermore, several concerns were identified that relate to discrepancies in the data reported by authors such that they do not support the findings presented in the article, and errors in the presentation of the data in the article. The Editor has lost confidence in the findings of the article and has determined that it should be retracted. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.

The authors disagree with the retraction and dispute the grounds for it.


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