DocumentCode
3343091
Title
Notice of Retraction
Effects of Atrazine on Potassium Currents of Cortical Neurons of Rats
Author
Weiwei Zhang ; Shumei Mu ; Xinwei Wang ; Xiaoqing Yu ; Cui Qi
Author_Institution
Sch. of Basic Med. Sci., HeBei Univ., Baoding, China
fYear
2011
fDate
10-12 May 2011
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
4
Abstract
Notice of Retraction
After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.
We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.
The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.
As a widely used herbicide, atrazine has various ecological and physiological toxicity, thus long-term exposure to the environment containing the herbicide will certainly affect the functions of different bio-organisms. K+ channel widely exists in animals and plays a significant role in keeping the excitability of neurons. In this study, whole cell patch-clamp recording was used to investigate the effects of atrazine treatment in different concentrations for different time on K+ currents of cultured cortical neurons from rats. The results indicated that the K+ currents were inhibited by atrazine treatment in a dose dependent manner in cortical neurons of rats.
After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.
We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.
The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.
As a widely used herbicide, atrazine has various ecological and physiological toxicity, thus long-term exposure to the environment containing the herbicide will certainly affect the functions of different bio-organisms. K+ channel widely exists in animals and plays a significant role in keeping the excitability of neurons. In this study, whole cell patch-clamp recording was used to investigate the effects of atrazine treatment in different concentrations for different time on K+ currents of cultured cortical neurons from rats. The results indicated that the K+ currents were inhibited by atrazine treatment in a dose dependent manner in cortical neurons of rats.
Keywords
agrochemicals; biochemistry; bioelectric phenomena; brain; cellular biophysics; ecology; electrochemistry; inhibitors; molecular biophysics; neurophysiology; positive ions; potassium; toxicology; K+ channel; atrazine effects; bio-organisms; ecological toxicity; long-term herbicide exposure; physiological toxicity; potassium currents; rat cortical neurons; Electric potential; In vitro; Neurons; Rats; Transient analysis; Voltage control;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, (iCBBE) 2011 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Wuhan
ISSN
2151-7614
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-5088-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/icbbe.2011.5781387
Filename
5781387
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