Retraction Note: Immunoprotective properties of Scaphium scaphigerum fruits in cyclophosphamide-induced immunosuppressed mice targeting humoral and cell-mediated immunity https://doi.org/10.12982/VIS.2026.033
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The Editors have retracted this article, Siriarchavatana et al. (2026) due to two serious of publication ethics. First, two individuals were listed as co-authors without their knowledge or consent, contradicting the Author Contributions section and breaching international authorship standards. Second, the ethical approval cited in the manuscript could not be verified, as the approval number did not exist in official records and no supporting documentation was provided. These issues—unauthorized authorship and unverifiable ethical clearance—compromise the integrity of the research and violate the journal’s ethical policies, necessitating the retraction of the article.
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