Junhao Ma, Xinxi Li, Yang Wang, Zhenwei
Yang, Jun Luo
Int J Mol Med 40: [Related
article:] 1869–1880, 2017;
Following the publication of this article, an
interested reader made us aware that the authors of the above paper
had misappropriated certain of the data that had been published
previously in three different papers.
Specifically, Fig. 2A, B and G in the above paper
appeared to be derived from Figs. 2A, 3 and 1A, respectively, of
the paper by CM Ripplinger, CW Kessinger, C Li, JW Kim, JR
McCarthy, R Weissleder, PK Henke, CP Lin and FA Jaffer
(Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 32: 2616–2624, 2012). Figs. 2E, F,
H, I and J in the above paper appeared to be derived from Figs. 1,
2A, 2D, 5E and 3F, respectively, of the paper by ML von Brühl, K
Stark, A Steinhart, S Chandraratne, I Konrad, M Lorenz, A Khandoga,
A Tirniceriu, R Coletti, M Köllnberger, et al (J Exp Med
209: 819–835, 2012). Fig. 6C in the above paper appeared to be
derived from Fig. 2D in the paper by CW Kessinger, JW Kim, PK
Henke, B Thompson, JR McCarthy, T Hara, M Sillesen, RJ Margey, P
Libby, R Weissleder, et al [PLoS One 10(2): e0116621, 2015],
and Fig. 6H in the above paper appeared to be derived from Fig. 4
in the paper by von Brühl et al.
Following an internal enquiry, the Editor of
International Journal of Molecular Medicine has determined
that the claim should be upheld; therefore, the Editorial Board has
decided that the article should be retracted. All efforts were made
to contact the corresponding author of the above article. The
Editor apologizes to the readership of the Journal for any
inconvenience caused.
