Retraction Notice: Tocotrienols and its Role in Cardiovascular Health- a Lead for Drug Design
Authors: Dipak K Das
R P Parameswari
Hannah R Vasanthi
Journal: Current Pharmaceutical Design (2011)
Discipline: PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY
Keywords: Retraction; Plagiarism; Drug Design; Cardiovascular Health; Tocotrienols
Affiliations: Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry-605014, India. , Department of Biotechnology School of Life Sciences Pondicherry University Puducherry-605014.

Abstract:  The article has been retracted by the Editorial office of the journal Current Pharmaceutical Design, due to some inconsistencies in the article [1]. The article appeared to be copied verbatim from published papers. Upon checking these facts, we have established that considerable portions of this review are made up of text copied verbatim from other published material. The Publisher has retracted this article in accordance with good ethical practices. Reference: [1] Vasanthi HR, Parameswari RP and Das DK. Tocotrienols and its Role in Cardiovascular Health- a Lead for Drug Design. Curr Pharm Des 2011; 17(21): 2170-5. Bentham Science apologizes to the readers of the journal for any inconvenience this may have caused. The Bentham Editorial Policy on Article Retraction can be found at https://benthamscience.com/editorial-policies-main.php. Bentham science disclaimer: It is a condition of publication that manuscripts submitted to this journal have not been published and will not be simultaneously submitted or published elsewhere. Furthermore, any data, illustration, structure or table that has been published elsewhere must be reported, and copyright permission for reproduction must be obtained. Plagiarism is strictly forbidden, and by submitting the article for publication the authors agree that the publishers have the legal right to take appropriate action against the authors, if plagiarism or fabricated information is discovered. By submitting a manuscript, the authors agree that the copyright of their article is transferred to the publishers if and when the article is accepted for publication. 

Retracted: No

PubPeer comments:
 This paper is co-authored by the late Dipak Das, who has already 20 papers retracted, according to https: retractionwatch.com 2014 03 27 late-resveratrol-researcher-dipak-das-up-to-20-retractions . This paper also appears to have some problems. A random selection of sentences appear to look very similar to sentences from older papers. Using Google Scholar, I found these sentences to match the following papers: * Hot Topic: Drugs Targeting Atherosclerosis: Current and Emerging Approaches Authors: Manolopoulos, Vangelis G.; Tavridou, Anna Current Pharmaceutical Design, Volume 15, Number 27, 2009, pp. 3091-3093(3) DOI: 10.2174 138161209789058039 * Palm oil vitamin E protects against ischemia reperfusion injury in the isolated perfused langendorff heart E Serbinova et al. Nutrition Research Volume 12, Supplement 1, 1992, Pages S203-S215 DOI: 10.1016 S0271-5317(05)80464-6 * Oxidative stress, alpha-tocopherol therapy, and atherosclerosis Current Atherosclerosis Reports September 2002, Volume 4, Issue 5, pp 373u2013380 Andrea Harris Sridevi Devaraj Ishwarlal Jialal * The therapeutic impacts of tocotrienols in type 2 diabetic patients with hyperlipidemia Simant Baliarsingh et al. Atherosclerosis Volume 182, Issue 2, October 2005, Pages 367-374 DOI: 10.1016 j.atherosclerosis.2005.02.020 * The Role of Vitamin E in the Prevention of Heart Disease David H. Emmert, MD; Jeffrey T. Kirchner, DO Arch Fam Med. 1999;8:537-542. Maybe someone with access to sophisticated plagiarism detection software could run the whole paper? , 
 Someone with access to iThenticate produced the following textual-similarity report. It seems that about 80 different sources might have been used. Here are screenshots of the iThenticate report: ![file] ![file] ![file] ![file] , 
 This 2011 article got retracted some time in the last month or so, although the journal s website does not give any details about the date or the reason. It just says the article has been retracted. The original paper is still available with a red watermark. ,