[Retracted] MicroRNA‑21 promotes the progression of peritoneal fibrosis through the activation of the TGF‑β/Smad signaling pathway: An in vitro and in vivo study

Ma,Ya‑Li; Chen,Fang; Yang,Su‑Xia; Chen,Bao‑Ping; Shi,Jun

doi:10.3892/ijmm.2020.4510

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[Retracted] MicroRNA‑21 promotes the progression of peritoneal fibrosis through the activation of the TGF‑β/Smad signaling pathway: An in vitro and in vivo study

Authors:
- Ya‑Li Ma
- Fang Chen
- Su‑Xia Yang
- Bao‑Ping Chen
- Jun Shi
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Affiliations: Department of Nephrology, Huaihe Hospital of Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan 475000, P.R. China

Copyright: © Ma et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License [CC BY 4.0].
Pages: 1627-1627
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Published online on: February 21, 2020

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MicroRNA-21 promotes the progression of peritoneal fibrosis through the activation of the TGF-β/Smad signaling pathway: An in vitro and in vivo study

YA-LI MA, FANG CHEN, SU-XIA YANG, BAO-PING CHEN AND JUN SHI

Int J Mol Med 41: 1030–1038, 2018; DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2017.3268

An interested reader drew to our attention the fact that the western blots featured in Fig. 2B in the above article contained duplicated data: The data shown for the TGF-β and vimentin protein bands were apparently identical; furthermore, there was a strong likelihood that the protein bands featured for the ZO-1 and SMAD-3 experiments were also the same, but flipped horizontally relative to the other.

Following an investigation, the Journal was able to confirm that this duplication of the research data had probably occurred. On those grounds, the Editor of International Journal of Molecular Medicine has decided that the above paper should be retracted. We were unable to make contact with the authors of the article published in International Journal of Molecular Medicine, despite every effort to do so. The Editor deeply regrets any inconvenience that this retraction has caused to the the readership of the Journal.