Retraction noticeRetraction notice to “THE EFFECT OF MATERNAL INFECTION ON COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT AND HIPPOCAMPUS NEURONAL APOPTOSIS, PROLIFERATION AND DIFFERENTIATION IN THE NEONATAL RATS” [Neuroscience 246 (2013) 422-434]

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the Editors due to excessive duplication of data and figures with other papers.The article is a duplicate of a paper that has already been published in Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry 44 (2013) 279-289. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2013.03.007. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that the paper is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. 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.