Int J Mol Med 28: [Related article:] 81-88, 2011; DOI:
10.3892/ijmm.2011.658
Following the publication of the above article, a
concerned reader drew the Editor's attention to the fact that,
regarding the microphotographs shown in Fig. 1, panels B and C, and
E, F and G contained overlapping sections, where different
treatment groups for the respective figure parts were reported in
the figure legend. In addition, for the immunohistochemical images
shown in Fig. 3, panels A-C also contained overlapping sections;
moreover, Fig. 3A, C, F and H contained a series of internally
duplicated groupings/repeated patternings of cells within these
panels that could not easily be attributed to coincidence. Finally,
concerning the tube formation experiments shown in Fig. 7, the
'ARB', 'Rib', 'IFN+Rib' and 'ARB+Rib' panels all apparently
contained overlapping sections.
After having conducted an internal investigation of
the data in this paper, the Editor of International Journal of
Molecular Medicine has decided that this article should be
retracted from the publication on the grounds of an overall lack of
confidence in the presented data. The authors were asked for an
explanation to account for these concerns, but the Editorial Office
did not receive a reply. The Editor sincerely apologizes to the
readership for any incovenience caused, and we thank the reader for
drawing this matter to our attention.
