RETRACTED: Influence of Helicteres isora administration for diabetes mellitus: Its effect on erythrocyte membrane and antioxidant status

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the corresponding author.This paper plagiarized part of papers that had already appeared in: Beneficial effect of succinic acid monoethyl ester on erythrocyte membrane bound enzymes and antioxidant status in streptozotocin-nicotinamide induced type 2 diabetes. Pari, L., Saravanan, R., Chem.-Biol. Interact., 169 (2007) 15–24; Influence of tetrahydrocurcumin on erythrocyte membrane bound enzymes and antioxidant status in experimental type 2 diabetic rats. Murugan. P., Pari, L., J. Ethnopharmacol. 113 (2007) 479–486.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. 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.