Retraction of: Scientific Reports 10.1038/s41598-022-19511-y, published online 14 September 2022
Editors have retracted this Article.
After publication of this Article, concerns about the data were brought to the attention of the Editors. Specifically, the well images presented in Figures 4 and 5 appear to have been published in an article with common authors1 that was under review simultaneously to this article, where they are presented differently.
The Editors requested that the Authors provide full raw data and copies of their ethics approval and protocol for the use of blood samples drawn from a human donor, but the Authors were not able to do so. The Editors no longer have confidence in the reliability of the results and findings presented in this Article.
Reza Eivazzadeh-Keihan, Zahra Sadat, Hooman Aghamirza Moghim Aliabadi, Fatemeh Ganjali, Amir Kashtiaray, Milad Salimi Bani, Samira Komijani, Reza Ahangari Cohan and Ali Maleki disagree with this retraction. Mohammad Mahdi Ahadian and Nabi Salehpour did not respond to correspondence from the Editors regarding this retraction.
Reference
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