RETRACTED: Protective effects of serum containing Ginkgo biloba extract on glomerulosclerosis in rat mesangial cells

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief.“We, the authors and our respective institutes make our sincere apologies for having published a paper in Journal of Ethnopharmacology with questionable integrity as figures are largely duplicated from Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, 2006, 27, 1222-1230 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-7254.2006.00360.x). We are now fully aware of all the confusion and damage this has caused, so please accept our apologies.”