Mol Med Rep 15: [Related article:] 3690-3698, 2017; DOI:
10.3892/mmr.2017.6431
The authors wish to retract their article entitled
“Generation and characterization of induced pluripotent stem cells
from guinea pig fetal fibroblasts” published in Molecular Medicine
Reports 15, 3690–3698, 2017. Following the publication of this
article, the authors noted that the description of the
reprogramming method and cell cultured conditions in the article
was inconsistent with the experimental facts, due to their
oversight and personnel issues in terms of who performed the
experimental work and who wrote up the paper. Some of the
experimental approaches were wrongly described in the Materials and
methods section. Namely, the feeder cells which were used in this
reprogramming were mouse embryonic fibroblasts, not guinea
fibroblast cells, as was reported; the reprogramming medium
contained 15% knockout serum replacement; the culture medium
contained 10% ESC qualified fetal bovine serum and 10% knockout
serum replacement; and 293T cells were transfected using the Quick
Shuttle-293 system. Due to the authors’ oversight, Figs 2A and C,
and Fig. 3 on p. 3,694 do not match with the textual
description.
In view of these serious errors, which the authors
are not able to rectify, they have requested that this article be
retracted from the publication. All the named authors agree to this
retraction. The authors regret any inconvenience to the readers
that this retraction will cause.
