Researchers have retracted a 2016 paper after discovering that they accidentally administered three times the reported dose of anesthesia to rats.

In theExperimental Physiology paper, the authors set out to mathematically map how rats blood pressure changes under different conditions, which required the rats to be anesthetized. But their findings were called into question when theyfoundthe rats had received a much higher concentration of anesthesia than intended. According to the notice, this higher dosecompromisedthe objectives of the experiment.

The corresponding author Karol Ondrias, from the Institute of Molecular Physiology and Genetics at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, told ushow the dosing error occurred: Read the rest of this entry

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