Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2586130 | Food and Chemical Toxicology | 2009 | 5 Pages |
This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the corresponding author.This paper plagiarized part of a paper that had already appeared in Antihyperlipidemic and antiperoxidative effect of Diasulin, a polyherbal formulation in alloxan induced hyperglycemic rats. Ramalingam Saravanan and Leelavinothan Pari, BMC Complem. Altern. Med.., 5 (2005) 14, doi:10.1186/1472-6882-5-14. 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.