Int J Mol Med 40: [Related article:] 845–853, 2017
The authors have requested that their research
article entitled ‘Piezo1 protein induces the apoptosis of human
osteoarthritis-derived chondrocytes by activating caspase-12, the
signaling marker of ER stress’ published in International Journal
of Molecular Medicine 40, 845-853, 2017, be retracted from the
journal. Following the publication of this article, an interested
reader drew to our attention that certain of the figures, or figure
parts, published in this article contained data that also appeared
at around the same time in a publication featuring several of the
same authors in Experimental Cell Research: Li XF, Leng P, Zhang Z
and Zhang HN: ‘The Piezo1 protein ion channel functions in human
nucleus pulposus cell apoptosis by regulating mitochondrial
dysfunction and the endoplasmic reticulum stress signal pathway’.
Exp Cell Res 358: 377–389, 2017.
Though these studies were performed in
osteoarthritic chondrocytes and nucleus pulposus cells,
respectively, the authors realize that their submission to
International Journal of Molecular Medicine was in breach of the
requirement that a submitted paper should represent an (entirely)
original study presenting novel work, and that none of the data
therein had been previously submitted to or accepted by any other
journal. Therefore, following the advice of the Editor, they are
going to retract the paper from International Journal of Molecular
Medicine. All the named authors agree to this retraction. They
sincerely apologize for this mistake, thank the reader of their
article who drew this matter to their attention, and regret any
inconvenience this has caused.
