RETRACTED: Enhanced cellular uptake and in vivo pharmacokinetics of rapamycin loaded cubic phase nanoparticles for cancer therapy

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief due to highly unethical practices, which include serial self plagiarism, data manipulation and falsification of results found across the following papers by Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo:Acta Biomaterialia Volume 6, Issue 8, August 2010, Pages 3120–3131. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2010.02.010Acta Biomaterialia Volume 7, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 355–369. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2010.08.010Acta Biomaterialia Volume 7, Issue 10, October 2011, Pages 3656–3669. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2011.06.015Acta Biomaterialia Volume 8, Issue 2, February 2012, Pages 704–719. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2011.10.022Acta Biomaterialia Volume 8, Issue 7, July 2012, Pages 2670–2687. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2012.03.048One 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.