Retraction Volume 15, Issue 21 pp 12698
Retraction for: Cationic solid lipid nanoparticles loaded by integrin β1 plasmid DNA attenuates IL-1β-induced apoptosis of chondrocyte
- 1 The First Department of Orthopedics, Cangzhou Central Hospital, Cangzhou, Hebei Province, China
- 2 Department of Joint Surgery, Xingtan Hospital Affiliated to Shunde Hospital of Southern Medical University, Foshan, Guangdong Province, China
- 3 Department of Bone and Joint Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
Received: August 11, 2022 Accepted: November 14, 2023 Published: November 15, 2023
https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.205326How to Cite
Copyright: © 2023 Zhao et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
This article has been retracted: Aging has completed its investigation of this paper after receiving alerts from the PubPeer platform regarding multiple inconsistences in Figure 4B as well as duplication of results from a separately published paper from a different author group [1]. We confirmed that Figure 2A, “Gel retardation assay of naked pDNA and SLNs/pDNA complexes with the different mass ratio,” duplicates Figure 1D, "Gel retardation assay of naked siRNA and MWNT/Sor/siRNA complexes with the different N/P ratio," published by other authors [1]. We also found internal duplications of results with BrdU- and DAPI-stained cells from other experimental groups presented in Figure 4B as well as inconsistency between the BrdU and DAPI images from the same experimental group and, as a result, a disconnect in the merged images. The authors notified us that they see the problems in the paper and all authors agreed that the article should be retracted.
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