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We, the Editor and Publisher of Drug Design, Development and Therapy, have retracted the published article.
After publication, image integrity concerns were raised regarding duplicated elements within Figures 4h (LP vs. YSHXD-H) and 5b (NLRP3-YSHXD-L vs. IL-1beta-UUO). When approached for an explanation, the authors did respond to our queries (stating the duplications were due to errors in image assembly) but were unable to provide a satisfactory explanation to address our concerns.
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