Retraction notice to "Isolation and characterization of a new steroid derivative as a powerful antioxidant from Cleome Arabica in screening the in vitro antioxidant capacity of eighteen Algerian medicinal plants" [Food and Chem. Toxicol. 48 10 October 2010 2599-2606].

Food Chem Toxicol. 2017 Mar;101:168. doi: 10.1016/j.fct.2017.01.032.

Amar D¹, Mohamed Y¹, Jean Michel B², Pierre S¹.

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Laboratoire des Sciences Fondamentales, Université Amar Telidji, Laghouat, BP37G Laghouat, Algeria.

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Université Paul Cézanne, Equipe Biosciences iSm2 UMR 6263, FST St. Jérôme, Case 342, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France.

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• Amar Djeridane, Mohamed Yousfi, Jean Michel Brunel, Pierre Stocker

• RETRACTED: Isolation and characterization of a new steroid derivative as a powerful antioxidant from Cleome arabica in screening the in vitro antioxidant capacity of 18 Algerian medicinal plants

• Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 48, Issue 10, October 2010, Pages 2599-2606
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This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).

With agreement from the authors, the Editor-in-Chief retracts this article due to a misleading interpretation of the structure of an isolated compound.

This article dealt with the study of hydromethanolic extracts from 18 Algerian medicinal plants screened for their phenolic contents and radical scavenging activities. After careful study, the structure proposed for the active compound isolated from Cleome arabica appears to be not in agreement with the chemical shifts observed in the corresponding NMR spectra (Table 4). This proposed structure needs to be removed and will be fully amended elsewhere. Nevertheless, this does not undermine all the biological conclusions presented in the research article.