Retracted: Optimization, Composition, and Antioxidant Activities of Exo- and Intracellular Polysaccharides in Submerged Culture of Cordyceps gracilis (Grev.)‎ Durieu & Mont.

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Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine has retracted the article titled “Optimization, Composition, and Antioxidant Activities of Exo- and Intracellular Polysaccharides in Submerged Culture of Cordyceps gracilis (Grev.) Durieu & Mont.” [1] because of concerns regarding data integrity and close similarities between this article on polysaccharide yields from Cordyceps gracilis cultures and two other articles [2, 3] by the authors on other members of this fungal genus, Cordyceps cicadae and Cordyceps tuberculata: (i) Sharma S.

K., Gautam N., and Atri N.

S., “Optimized extraction, composition, an antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of exo and intracellular polysaccharides from submerged culture of Cordyceps cicadae,” BMC Complement.

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Med.

15: 446 (2015).

(ii) Sapan Kumar Sharma and Nandini Gautam, “Bioprospection of cordyceps tuberculata for production of bioactive polysaccharides under submerged culture conditions,” EPRA International Journal of Research and Development (IJRD), 1:10, December 2016.