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CORRECTION article

Front. Neurosci., 18 November 2025

Sec. Neurodegeneration

Volume 19 - 2025 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2025.1722602

Correction: Gulf war toxicant-induced effects on the hippocampal dendritic arbor are reversed by treatment with a Withania somnifera extract

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  1. Gulf war toxicant-induced effects on the hippocampal dendritic arbor are reversed by treatment with a Withania somnifera extract

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Amaan L. Shaikh,&#x;Amaan L. Shaikh1,2†Kathleen E. Murray,&#x;Kathleen E. Murray1,2†Vijayalakshmi RavindranathVijayalakshmi Ravindranath3Bruce A. Citron,, Bruce A. Citron1,2,4*
  • 1Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Research & Development, Department of Veterans Affairs, VA New Jersey Health Care System, East Orange, NJ, United States
  • 2School of Graduate Studies, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, United States
  • 3Centre for Brain Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
  • 4Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, & Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, United States

A Correction on
Gulf war toxicant-induced effects on the hippocampal dendritic arbor are reversed by treatment with a Withania somnifera extract

by Shaikh, A. L., Murray, K. E., Ravindranath, V., and Citron, B. A. (2024). Front. Neurosci. 18:1368667. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2024.1368667

There was a mistake in Figures 3A–C as published. Incorrect representative images were provided. There are no other changes besides replacing those three images. There are no changes to any text, no changes to the figure caption, and no changes to anything else in the figure. The corrected Figure 3 appears below.

Figure 3
Images A, B, and C show dendritic spines under different treatments: Control-Vehicle, GWI-Vehicle, and GWI-Treated. Graphs D and E display spine density in males and females, respectively. D shows similar density between Control-Vehicle and GWI-Treated, lower in GWI-Vehicle. E shows the highest density in Control-Vehicle, followed by GWI-Treated, with GWI-Vehicle being the lowest. Statistical significance indicated by asterisks.

Figure 3. Overall spine density of granule cells in the dentate gyrus. Micrographs of representative dendritic spines of granule cells at 19 weeks post-exposure to (A) vehicle with no treatment, (B) PB + CPF + DEET with no treatment, or (C) PB + CPF + DEET with W. somnifera treatment via oral gavage. Scale bars: 5 μm. (D, E) Total dendritic spine density (μm) decreased in GWI mice but treatment rescued this in both male and female mice (19 total mice; **p <0.01, ****p <0.0001).

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Keywords: gulf war illness, neurodegeneration, ayurveda, dendritic arborization, hippocampus, neuronal morphology, granule cells

Citation: Shaikh AL, Murray KE, Ravindranath V and Citron BA (2025) Correction: Gulf war toxicant-induced effects on the hippocampal dendritic arbor are reversed by treatment with a Withania somnifera extract. Front. Neurosci. 19:1722602. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2025.1722602

Received: 10 October 2025; Revised: 10 October 2025; Accepted: 05 November 2025;
Published: 18 November 2025.

Edited and reviewed by: Ashok K. Shetty, Texas A&M University School of Medicine, United States

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*Correspondence: Bruce A. Citron, YnJ1Y2UuY2l0cm9uQHJ1dGdlcnMuZWR1

†These authors have contributed equally to this work

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