Following publication of the article entitled “Regulation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 influences hippocampal neuronal survival in a rat model of diabetic cerebral ischemia” (Zhao et al., 2014b; doi: 10.4103/1673-5374.131581), concerns were raised to Neural Regeneration Research that Figure 1B and D in the paper by Zhao et al. (2014b) were identical to Figure 1D and E in the paper published in Molecular Medicine Reports (Zhao et al., 2016).
There are overlaps between Figure 5B and D in the paper by Zhao et al. (2014b) and Figure 3A in another paper (Zhao et al., 2014a).
In light of these concerns, the Neural Regeneration Research editors retract this article.
The authors YZ, JL, QT, PZ, LJ, CC, SL could not be reached.
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