IJMM International Journal of Molecular Medicine 1107-3756 1791-244X D.A. Spandidos 10.3892/ijmm.2026.5946 ijmm-58-04-05946 Retraction [Retracted] Effects of miRNA-455 on cardiac hypertrophy induced by pressure overload WuChuntao DongShimin LiYongjun 10 2026 03 08 2026 58 4 275 Copyright: © 2026 Wu et al. 2026 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 this paper, it was drawn to the Editor's attention by a concerned reader that, in addition to a pair of data panels showing images of myocardial fibrosis in Fig. 5A on p. 897 having an overlapping section, western blots data featured in Fig. 6B for the '2 weeks' experiments on p. 898 were strikingly similar to data that had already been submitted to the journal PLoS One in a paper that was written by different authors at different research institutes.

Given that the abovementioned data had already been submitted for publication before the receipt of this paper at International Journal of Molecular Medicine, the Editor has decided that it should be retracted from the Journal. The authors were asked for an explanation to account for these concerns, but the Editorial Office did not receive a reply. The Editor apologizes to the readership for any inconvenience caused.