<b>RETRACTION</b>: Intrinsic innervation and dopaminergic markers after experimental denervation in rat thymus

Abstract

On behalf of the coauthors and with much regret, I must retract our publication entitled “Intrinsic innervation and dopaminergic markers after experimental denervation in rat thymus” published in European Journal of Histochemistry 2010;54(2):e17 for the following reason: Unfortunately, now, after thirteen years, we have realized that some microphotographs published in the paper have been processed to improve the presentation of the images. The three surviving authors of the paper agree that the processing of the presentation images is against the COPE Ethical Editorial Standard, although the presentation images do not alter the integrity of methodological procedures and the results of the research work, obtained from the direct analysis of slides under microscope and rigorous statistical analysis of data; therefore, we, the authors of the above indicated paper, request the retraction of the publication. We apologize for what happened. Maurizio Sabbatini Dip. di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica (DISIT) Università del Piemonte Orientale Alessandria, Italy

Keywords

• thymus
• sympathetic nerve
• parasympatethic nerve
• phrenic nerve
• dopamine receptors