The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), the central, self-governing research funding organization in Germany, has notified Molecular Pharmacology that the above article by Henschler et al. (1991) contains falsified information. An interinstitutional task force organized by the DFG investigated falsification allegations against Prof. Friedhelm Herrmann and Marion Brach. Prof. Herrmann is the corresponding author of the above article. The task force determined that the above article was falsified. Molecular Pharmacology was officially notified of this in a letter from Dr. Reinhard Grunwald dated October 30, 2006.
The article was retracted on November 14, 2006.
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