Mol Med Rep 11: [Related article:] 3317–3329, 2015; DOI:
10.3892/mmr.2015.3155
Following the publication of the above paper, it was
drawn to the Editor's attention by a concerned reader that the
histological data featured in Fig. 8A of this paper had already
appeared in Fig. 3 in an article published by the same research
group in the journal World Journal of Emergency Medicine in
2013. Subsequently, the Editorial Office performed an independent
assessment of the overlapping data between these two papers, and
even though additional experiments were performed in the article
reported above, including the creation of an alternative sepsis
model with Kunming mice and the inclusion of pathological data for
the rats in organs other than the heart, it remained the case that
Figs. 1–3 of the World Journal of Emergency Medicine article
and many of the data in Tables 1–3 (albeit in graphical form) were
included in the above paper.
Given that almost all of the data featured in the
World Journal of Emergency Medicine paper had apparently
been included in the above article, the Editor of Molecular
Medicine Reports has decided that this should be retracted on
account of these data having been published previously. The authors
were asked for an explanation to account for these concerns, but
the Editorial Office did not receive a reply. The Editor apologizes
for any inconvenience caused to the readership of the Journal.
