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Retraction Note: In Vitro antioxidant and anticancer activity of young Zingiber officinale against human breast carcinoma cell lines

The Original Article was published on 20 September 2011

The journal has retracted this article [1] because it contains large portions of text that were duplicated from articles previously published in The Journal of Medicinal Plants Research [2] and Molecules [3].

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  1. Rahman S, Salehin F, Iqbal A: In vitro antioxidant and anticancer activity of young Zingiber offincinale against human breast carcinoma cell lines. BMC Complement Altern Med. 2011, 11: 76-10.1186/1472-6882-11-76.

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Rahman, S., Salehin, F. & Iqbal, A. Retraction Note: In Vitro antioxidant and anticancer activity of young Zingiber officinale against human breast carcinoma cell lines. BMC Complement Altern Med 12, 206 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-12-206

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