Molecular Medicine Reports Molecular Medicine Reports 1791-2997 1791-3004 D.A. Spandidos 10.3892/mmr.2025.13538 MMR-32-1-13538 Retraction [Retracted] Effect of selective inhibition or activation of PGE2 EP1 receptor on glomerulosclerosis ChenXu YinJun XuYuyin QiuZhi LiuJing ChenXiaolan 07 2025 15 04 2025 32 1 173 Copyright: © 2025 Chen et al. 2025 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.

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Following the publication of the above paper, it was drawn to the Editor's attention by a concerned reader that, regarding the immunohistochemical images shown in Fig. 2C and 3A, at least four pairs of data panels showed evidence of overlapping data, both within the same figure parts and comparing between them.

Owing to the large number of data duplication events that have been identified in this paper, the Editor of Molecular Medicine Reports has decided that it should be retracted from the Journal on account of a 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 satisfactory reply. The Editor apologizes to the readership for any inconvenience caused.