RETRACTED: Effect of phentolamine on myocardial extracellular matrix of cardiac remodeling in rats

Asian Pac J Trop Med. 2014 Aug;7(8):645-649. doi: 10.1016/S1995-7645(14)60108-5.

Abstract

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the journal Editorial Office. The authors have plagiarized part of a paper that had already appeared in Chinese Journal of Arteriosclerosis 2014, 4, 362–366. article id: 1007–3949 (2014) 22-04-0362-05. 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 an 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.

Keywords: Extracellular matrix; Matrix metalloproteinases; Phentolamine; collagen I.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Retracted Publication

MeSH terms

  • Adrenergic alpha-Antagonists / pharmacology
  • Animals
  • Cardiomegaly / metabolism
  • Collagen Type I / analysis
  • Collagen Type I / metabolism
  • Extracellular Matrix / drug effects*
  • Extracellular Matrix / metabolism
  • Heart / drug effects*
  • Male
  • Matrix Metalloproteinases / analysis
  • Matrix Metalloproteinases / metabolism
  • Myocardium / metabolism
  • Phentolamine / pharmacology*
  • Rats
  • Rats, Sprague-Dawley
  • Ventricular Remodeling / drug effects*

Substances

  • Adrenergic alpha-Antagonists
  • Collagen Type I
  • Matrix Metalloproteinases
  • Phentolamine