Mol Med Rep 12: [Related article:] 5746–5752, 2015; DOI:
10.3892/mmr.2015.4193
Following the publication of this article on-line
ahead of print, an interested reader drew to our attention some
anomalies associated with the presentation of Fig. 1. In the lower panel, the fourth
image from the left resembled a mirror image representation of the
image in the first panel; the fifth image from the left bore a
marked resemblance to a section of the third image, albeit
displaced at an angle and with a different magnification; and an
internal office investigation drew our attention to the fact that
the sixth image in the upper panel resembled a section of the image
in the third panel, although rotated through 180°.
The authors presented all the images of
immunofluorescence to the editor, and acknowledge that mistakes
occurred during the compilation of the Figure. In the present
experiment, high-intensity specific immunoreactive signals among
different groups were being compared. The original data were
reexamined, and the same conclusion was borne out, that the signal
associated with Cx43 and p-Cx43 decreased, and the distribution of
the signal became more heterogeneous, in correlation with the
duration of ventricular fibrillation. These errors in the
compilation of the Figure arose as a consequence of a lack of
communication between the first two authors listed on the paper,
and further inadequacies in our data handling. A corrected version
of Fig. 1 is presented below, with
the correct data shown for the third and sixth images from the left
in the upper panel, and the first, third, fourth and fifth images
from the left in the lower panel. The authors deeply regret these
errors, and apologize for any inconvenience caused.
