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Yu Lan and Xiaoling Liu published online on 10 January 2018 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been withdrawn by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief Gary S. Stein and John Wiley and Sons, Inc. The retraction has been agreed because the authors are not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: 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Du, and Bo Yu published online on 31 August 2017 in Wiley Online Library ( https://wileyonlinelibrary.com ), has been withdrawn by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief Gary S. Stein and John Wiley and Sons, Inc. The retraction has been agreed because the authors are not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.     

Retracted: Notch activation is regulated by an interaction between hCLP46 and chaperone protein calnexin

Retraction: The following article from Cell Biochemistry and Function, "Notch activation Is regulated by interaction between hCLP46 and the chaperone protein calnexin" by Xiaoqin Feng and Lixin Liu, published online on 3 April 2012 in Wiley Online Library (www.wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted with agreement from the authors, the journal Editor, Nigel Loveridge, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The retraction has been agreed because the paper was submitted without approval from the co-author, Lixin Liu, and contains data that requires further experimentation in order to support the conclusions fully. Reference Feng, X. and Liu, L. (2012), Notch activation is regulated by an interaction between hCLP46 and chaperone protein calnexin. Cell Biochem. Funct. doi: 10.1002/cbf.2825.     

Retraction: Genistein protects genioglossus myocyte against hypoxia-induced injury through PI3K-Akt and ERK MAPK pathways

RETRACTION: The following article from Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, Genistein protects genioglossus myocyte against hypoxia-induced injury through PI3K-Akt and ERK MAPK pathways by Wanghui Ding and Yuehua Liu, posted online on May 19, 2011 in Wiley Online Library (onlinelibrary.wiley.com), has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the journal Editor in Chief, Dr. Gary S. Stein and Wiley-Liss, Inc. The retraction has been made as authorization to publish was not granted by one of the funding bodies.     

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: 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: 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: 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: ‘ Overexpression of miR-4286 is an unfavorable prognostic marker in individuals with non–small cell lung cancer ’, by Xian An, Jiwen Ge, Huihui Guo, Huaixue Mi, Jinhua Zhou, Yongrui Liu, Weiyue, Zhilian Wu, J Cell Biochem. 2019; 17573-17583: The above article, published online on 20 May 2019 in Wiley Online Library ( https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jcb.29024 ), has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the journal acting Editor in Chief, Dr. Lucie Kalvodova, and the Wiley Periodicals LLC after the authors stated that in subsequent research they found results which are in contradiction to the conclusions of this article.     

Retracted: Bauhinia saksuwaniae sp. nov. (Leguminosae–Caesalpinioideae) from Thailand

The following article from the Nordic Journal of Botany , ‘Bauhinia saksuwaniae sp. nov. (Leguminosae‐Caesalpinioideae) from Thailand.’ by Sawai Mattapha, Pranom Chantaranothai and Somran Suddee, published online on 11 December 2013 in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ), has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the journal Editor in Chief, Torbjörn Tyler and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The retraction has been agreed due to the publication of a species under the name B. nakhonpranomensis, prior to the publication of this article.     

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.     

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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.     

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.     

Retracted: Diversity of ants across an altitudinal gradient in and outside a spruce forest in the Harz Mountains,Germany

Retraction: The following article from Insect Science, ‘Diversity of ants across an altitudinal gradient in and outside a spruce forest in the Harz Mountains, Germany’ by Marc Srour, Germano Leão Demolin Leite, Torsten Wappler, Teja Tscharntke and Christoph Scherber, published online on 2 August 2012 in Wiley Online Library ( http://wileyonlinelibrary.com ), has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the journal Editor in Chief, Le Kang, and Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd. The retraction has been agreed due to concerns having been raised about the validity of the species richness values derived by the authors, and regarding the validity of the species determinations.     

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: 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.     

Retracted: Mitochondria,the missing link between body and soul: Proteomic prospective evidence

Retraction: The following article from the journal PROTEOMICS, 'Mitochondria, the missing link between body and soul: Proteomic perspective evidence' by Mohamad Warda and Jin Han, published online on 23 January 2008 in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ), has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the journal Editor‐in‐Chief, Michael J. Dunn and the publisher Wiley‐VCH. The retraction has been agreed due a substantial overlap of the content of this article with previously published articles in other journals. PROTEOMICS apologizes to our readership.     

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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.