RETRACTED: Gastric mucosal defense and cytoprotection

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief.The authors have plagiarized another article. There is considerable overlap with: Wallace JL. Prostaglandins, NSAIDs and gastric mucosal protection: why doesn't the stomach digest itself? Physiol Rev., 88 (2008) 1547–1565. 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.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.