Withdrawal: Muscle-derived Satellite Cells for Treating Type 1 Diabetes in Rats (Rattus norvegicus)

The above article from Journal of Cellular Physiology, “Muscle-derived Satellite Cells for Treating Type 1 Diabetes in Rats (Rattus norvegicus)” by Yu Ren, Hefei Wang, Si Ha, Xingsheng Zhao, Xiao Wang, Yu Lan and Xiaoling Liu published online on 10 January 2018 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been withdrawn by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief Gary S. Stein and John Wiley and Sons, Inc. The retraction has been agreed because the authors are not responding to requests to finalize their article for publication in the journal as the Version of Record.     

Retraction: Prognostic implication and functional role of long noncoding RNA IGF2AS in human non-small cell lung cancer

The above article, from Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, “Prognostic implication and functional role of long noncoding RNA IGF2AS in human non-small cell lung cancer” by Xin Zhang, Xiujuan Zhang, Rongpeng Hu, and Lanxiang Hao published online on 4 May 2017 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been withdrawn by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief Gary S. Stein and John Wiley and Sons, Inc. The retraction has been agreed because the authors are not responding to requests to finalize their article for publication in the journal as the Version of Record.     

Retraction: microRNA-588 is upregulated in human prostate cancer with prognostic and functional implications

The above article, from Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, “microRNA-588 is upregulated in human prostate cancer with prognostic and functional implications” by Nan Zhao, Tao Lin, Changbo Zhao, Shikai Zhao, Shiming Zhou, and Yuqiao Li published online on 5 October 2017 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been withdrawn by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief Gary S. Stein and John Wiley and Sons, Inc. The retraction has been agreed because the authors are not responding to requests to finalize their article for publication in the journal as the Version of Record.     

Retraction: lncRNA CCAT1 contributes to the growth and invasion of gastric cancer via targeting miR-219-1

The above article, from Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, “lncRNA CCAT1 contributes to the growth and invasion of gastric cancer via targeting miR-219-1” by Yanfeng Li, Guanyu Zhu, Yan Ma, and Hongyan Qu published online on 12 December 2017 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been withdrawn by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief Gary S. Stein and John Wiley and Sons, Inc. The retraction has been agreed because the authors are not responding to requests to finalize their article for publication in the journal as the Version of Record.     

Retraction: miR-200a mediates protection of thymosin β4 in cardiac microvascular endothelial cells as a novel mechanism under hypoxia-reoxygenation injury

The above article, from Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, “miR-200a mediates protection of thymosin β4 in cardiac microvascular endothelial cells as a novel mechanism under hypoxia-reoxygenation injury” by Yang Li, Xiaolong Zhu, Xiping Liu, Aolin Du, and Bo Yu published online on 31 August 2017 in Wiley Online Library ( https://wileyonlinelibrary.com ), has been withdrawn by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief Gary S. Stein and John Wiley and Sons, Inc. The retraction has been agreed because the authors are not responding to requests to finalize their article for publication in the journal as the Version of Record.     

Retraction: 7, 8, 3’-Trihydroxyflavone protectsH/R-induced apoptosis and induces in vivo growth of human embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes

The above article, from Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, “7, 8, 3’-Trihydroxyflavone protects H/R-induced apoptosis and induces in vivo growth of human embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes” by Jiaxiang Li, Cuiping Wang, Bao Zhang, and Baiyun Tang published online on 20 May 2017 in Wiley Online Library (https://wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been withdrawn by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief Gary S. Stein and John Wiley and Sons, Inc. The retraction has been agreed because the authors are not responding to requests to finalize their article for publication in the journal as the Version of Record.     

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Retraction: “HCFU inhibits cervical cancer cells growth and metastasis by inactivating Wnt/β-catenin pathway” from Journal of Cellular Biochemistry by Ping Liu, Shuying Ma, Hua Liu, Huazhen Han, and Shanshan Wang published online on 12 December 2017 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been withdrawn by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief Gary S. Stein and John Wiley and Sons, Inc. The retraction has been agreed because the authors are not responding to requests to finalize their article for publication in the journal as the Version of Record.     

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Retraction : “MicroRNA-1271 functions as a potential tumor suppressor in hepatitis B virus–associated hepatocellular carcinoma through the AMPK signaling pathway by binding to CCNA1 ” by Yang Chen, Zhen-Xian Zhao, Fei Huang, Xiao-Wei Yuan, Liang Deng, and Di Tang, J Cell Physiol. 2019; 3555-3569: The above article, published online on 22 November 2018 in Wiley Online Library ( https://doi.org/10.1002/jcp.26955 ), has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the journal's Editor-in-Chief, Prof Dr Gregg Fields, and Wiley Periodicals LLC. The retraction has been agreed following an investigation based on allegations raised by a third party concerning similarities to images in a published article by different authors in another journal. The authors asked to retract their article and stated that unintentional errors occurred during the collation of the figures for publication. As a consequence, the editors consider the conclusions to be invalid.     

Retracted: Production,biochemical characterization,and kinetic/thermodynamic study of novel serine protease from Aspergillus avenaceus URM 6706

“Production, biochemical characterization, and kinetic/thermodynamic study of novel serine protease from Aspergillus avenaceus URM 6706“ (by da Silva A, et al.) Bio. Tech. Prog.; https://aiche.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/btpr.3091 The above listed article, from Biotechnology Progress, published online in Early View on October 16, 2020 in Wiley Online Library ( http://wileyonlinelibrary.com ), has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the journal's Editor-in-Chief, John A. Morgan and Wiley Periodicals LLC. The retraction has been agreed because the article was not accepted for publication by the Journal and subsequently published in error as an Early View article. The editorial team of this journal takes full responsibility and apologizes for the technical error that resulted in this article appearing in Early View.     

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Senapati, N., Griffiths, S., Hawkesford, M., Shewry, P. R., & Semenov, M. A. (2019). Large increase in yield is predicted by wheat ideotypes for Europe under future climate. Global Change Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14943 . [Epub ahead of print] The above article, first published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) on 4 December 2019, has been retracted by the journal Editor‐in‐Chief Steve Long, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Since publication of the above article, it was discovered that a substantial proportion of the results presented to the journal as original had in fact already been published by two of the authors in another journal. The editors apologize for any inconvenience the publication of this work may have caused to readers.     

Withdrawal: Booher,Adam & Kathryn Oths. The last bonesetter: An encounter with Don Felipe. DVD/PAL, 27 mins,colour. Watertown,Mass: DER, 2018. $295.00 (institutional use). Reviewed by Howard Reid

The above article from Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, published online on 5 December 2022, in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ), has been withdrawn by agreement between the journal Editors in Chief, Hannah Knox, Adam Reed, Chika Watanabe, and Thomas Yarrow, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The withdrawal has been agreed due to a technical error at the publisher that caused the article to be mistakenly published online although its author has not signed the journal's publishing license.     

Retraction: Fu,W., Wang,W., Wang,H., Zhu,X., Liang,Y., Kung,H. and Zhang,J. (2014), 1,3,5‐Trihydroxy‐13,13‐dimethyl‐2H‐pyran [7,6‐b] xanthone directly targets heat shock protein 27 in hepatocellular carcinoma. Cell Biol Int, 38: 272–276. doi:10.1002/cbin.10193

The above article from Cell Biology International, published online on 07 October 2013 in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ) has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the journal Editor‐in‐Chief and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The retraction has been agreed due to an error in the detection method used.     

Retraction Statement: Comparison of nitrogen inputs and accumulation in 210Pb‐dated peat cores: Evidence for biological N2‐fixation in Central European peatlands despite decades of atmospheric N pollution

“Comparison of nitrogen inputs and accumulation in ²¹⁰Pb‐dated peat cores: Evidence for biological N₂‐fixation in Central European peatlands despite decades of atmospheric N pollution” https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14505 , by Martin Novak, Melanie A. Vile, Jan Curik, Bohuslava Cejkova, Jiri Barta, Marketa Stepanova, Ivana Jackova, Frantisek Buzek, Leona Bohdalkova, Eva Prechova, Frantisek Veselovsky, Marie Adamova, Ivana Valkova and Arnost Komarek. The above article, first published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) in Global Change Biology, has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the journal Editor‐in‐Chief, Stephen P. Long, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Since publication of the above article, it was brought to the attention of the authors that the peat accretion rates violate reasonable ranges of peatland C/N/P stoichiometry, placing the quantitative conclusions of the article in serious error. The authors apologize for any inconvenience the publication of this work may have caused our readers. REFERENCE Novak, M., Vile, M. A., Cejkova, B., Barta, J., Stepanova, M., Jackova, I., Buzek, F., Bohdalkova, L., Prechova, E., Veselovsky, F., Adamova, M., Valkova, I., & Komarek, A. (2018). Comparison of nitrogen inputs and accumulation in ²¹⁰Pb‐dated peat cores: Evidence for biological N₂‐fixation in Central European peatlands despite decades of atmospheric N pollution. Global Change Biology.. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14505     

Retraction: Open and closed conformations reveal induced fit movements in butyrate kinase 2 activation. J. Diao,Y. D. Ma,and M. S. Hasson.

The following article from Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, “Open and closed conformations reveal induced fit movements in butyrate kinase 2 activation,” by Jiasheng Diao, Yunglin D. Ma, and Miriam S. Hasson, published online on 21 October 2010 in Wiley Online Library (onlinelibrary.wiley.com), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Bertrand Garcia‐Moreno, and Wiley Periodicals. The retraction has been agreed because it was established by internal investigation performed by Purdue University that the authors of this article are not the owners of the data and have no right to publication.     

Retracted: A proteomic approach for investigation of photosynthetic apparatus in plants

Retraction: The following article from Proteomics, “A proteomic approach for investigation of photosynthetic apparatus in plants” by C. Ciambella, P. Roepstorff, E.M. Aro and L. Zolla, published online on 28 January 2005 in the Wiley Online Library ( http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pmic.200401129/full ), has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the Editor‐in‐Chief and Wiley‐VCH GmbH & Co. KGaA. The retraction has been agreed due to the similarity of Figure 4 in this article and an image from an article by B. Granvogl and L.A. Eichacker which was originally submitted to Proteomics on November 1^st, 2002 and which was finally published online on 6 June 2006 in the Wiley Online Library ( http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pmic.200500924/full ) as Figure 1 in Proteomics, “Mapping the proteome of thylakoid membranes by de novo sequencing of intermembrane peptide domains” by B. Granvogl, V. Reisinger and L.A. Eichacker.     

Retraction: Zhong H,Lu L,Wang Y,Yang H. Single layer molybdenum disulfide as an optical nanoprobe for 2 photon luminescence and second harmonic generation cell imaging. J. Biophotonics. 2018;11:e201700354.

The above article from the Journal of Biophotonics, published online on 9 January 2018 in Wiley Online Library as Early View ( https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jbio.201700354 ), and in Volume 11, e201700354, has been retracted by agreement between the authors (Hong Zhong, Lin Lu, Yuanhao Wang, Hongxing Yang), Prof. Sailing He, Prof. Jurgen Popp (Editor‐in‐Chief) and Wiley‐VCH GmbH & Co. KGaA. The retraction has been agreed because the submitting author Hong Zhong failed to acknowledge the true authorship of the presented study which was originally conducted by a group led by Prof. Sailing He in South China Normal University, Guangzhou of China. REFERENCE Zhong H, Lu L, Wang Y, Yang H. Single layer molybdenum disulfide as an optical nanoprobe for 2 photon luminescence and second harmonic generation cell imaging. J. Biophotonics  2018 ;11:e201700354. https://doi.org/10.1002/jbio.201700354     

Retracted: Variation of Phomopsis viticola isolates in the interaction with grapevine germplasm

Wilma Sabetta, Cinzia Montemurro and Monica Marilena Miazzi, (2019). Variation of Phomopsis viticola isolates in the interaction with grapevine germplasm. Journal of Phytopathology, 167, 312. https://doi.org/10.1111/jph.12699 The above article from Journal of Phytophathology, published as an Early View article online on 08 March 2018 in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ), has been retracted by agreement between the authors, Wilma Sabetta, Cinzia Montemurro and Monica Marilena Miazzi, the journal Editor in Chief, Andreas von Tiedemann, and John Wiley and Sons Ltd. The retraction has been made as a consequence of a disagreement between the authors as to the conclusions of the study.     

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Comment on Anthropology: Why it Matters

We, the Editors and Publisher of Anthropological Forum, have retracted the following article:

Maurice Godelier (2019) Comment on Anthropology: Why it Matters, Anthropological Forum, DOI:10.1080/00664677.2019.1615255

Due to some communication issues, another version of this review has been published elsewhere. Accordingly, this version of the review has been retracted from publication.

We have been informed in our decision-making by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines on retractions.

The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted”.     

Retraction. Growth, ion homeostasis, photosynthesis and photosystem II efficiency of an obligate halophyte, Salicornia brachiata, under increasing salinity

The following article from Plant Biology, “Growth, ion homeostasis, photosynthesis and photosystem II efficiency of an obligate halophyte, Salicornia brachiata, under increasing salinity (p)” by A. K. Parida, C. M. Hari Kishore & B. Jha, published online on 1 April 2010 (DOI: 10.1111/j.1438‐8677.2010.00336.x ) in Wiley InterScience ( http://www.interscience.wiley.com ), has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the journal Editor‐in‐Chief, Heinz Rennenberg and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. The retraction has been agreed due to concern about overlap with the article “Relationship between the photosynthetic activity and the performance of Cakile maritima after long‐term salt treatment” by Ahmed Debez, Hans‐Werner Koyro, Claude Grignon, Chedly Abdelly, Bernhard Huchzermeyer published in Physiologia Plantarum (2008) vol. 133, 373‐385.     

RETRACTED: High-level expression and purification of recombinant huGM-CSF (9–127)/IL-6 (29–184) fusion protein in Escherichia coil

This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief and authors.The article was published previously in substantially identical form in another journal prior to appearing in Protein Expression and Purification. The authors deeply regret this duplication and wish to withdraw the article from publication. The article was published previously in Sheng Wu Gong Cheng Xue Bao [Refolding and purification of the huGM-CSF(9-127)-IL-6(29-184) fusion protein, Sun QM, Liu HY, Dai CB, Ma YB, Sun MS, Xu WM. Sheng Wu Gong Cheng Xue Bao (Chinese Journal of Biotechnology) 2002 May;18(3):291-294]. Chinese. PMID: 12192859.