Explor Drug Sci EDS Exploration of Drug Science 2836-7677 Open Exploration Publishing 10.37349/eds.2025.100896 100896 Retraction Retraction: Controlled release of dexamethasone phosphate from modified mesoporous biocompatible silica nanoparticles: synthesis, characterization, and kinetic studies Galdopórpora Juan Manuel 1 Olivera María Victoria 2 Ibar Angelina 3 Farriol Darío Hernán 3 Desimone Martín Federico 4 5 Queirolo Cynthia Melisa Melián 5 6 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0986-4580 Pardo Helena 7 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3083-2919 Tuttolomondo María Victoria 4 5 * 1Unidad de Investigación en Bioquímica Traslacional y Metabolismo (UBiTyM), Facultad de Odontología, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CABA 1113, Argentina 2Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Quilmes 1876, Argentina 3Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CABA 1113, Argentina 4Departamento de Ciencias Químicas, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CABA 1113, Argentina 5Instituto de Química y Metabolismo del Fármaco (IQUIMEFA), CONICET - Universidad de Buenos Aires, CABA 1113, Argentina 6Departamento de Sanidad, Nutrición, Bromatología y Toxicología, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CABA 1113, Argentina 7Centro NanoMat, Polo Tecnológico de Pando, Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, Pando 15600, Uruguay * Correspondence: María Victoria Tuttolomondo, Departamento de Ciencias Químicas, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CABA 1113, Argentina; Instituto de Química y Metabolismo del Fármaco (IQUIMEFA), CONICET - Universidad de Buenos Aires, CABA 1113, Argentina. mvt@ffyb.uba.ar; mvtuttolomondo@gmail.com 2025 17 03 2025 3 100896 © The Author(s) 2025. This is an Open Access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, for any purpose, even commercially, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Retraction to “Controlled release of dexamethasone phosphate from modified mesoporous biocompatible silica nanoparticles: synthesis, characterization, and kinetic studies” by Galdopórpora JM, Olivera MV, Ibar A, Farriol DH, Desimone MF, Queirolo CMM, et al. Explor Drug Sci. 2025;3:100895. DOI: 10.37349/eds.2025.100895

The original article has been retracted by the authors. After the article was published, concerns were raised by one of the authors regarding their prior consent to the submission. According to journal policy, the corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that all authors agree to the submission. The corresponding author was therefore contacted for clarification. The corresponding author acknowledged that prior consent for submission had not been obtained from some of the authors due to an internal miscommunication and misunderstanding within the authors’ research group, and requested the retraction of the article. Authors Darío Hernán Farriol, Martín Federico Desimone, and Cynthia Melisa Melián Queirolo agree with the decision to retract. Authors Juan Manuel Galdopórpora, María Victoria Olivera, Angelina Ibar, and Helena Pardo could not be reached as of publication.

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