RETRACTION: S.‐L. Liu, J.‐S. Deng, C.‐S. Chiu, et al., “Involvement of Heme Oxygenase‐1 Participates in Anti‐Inflammatory and Analgesic Effects of Aqueous Extract of Hibiscus taiwanensis,” Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, vol. 2012 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/132859.
The above article, published online on 21 June 2012 in Wiley Online Library (https://wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
The retraction has been agreed following an investigation of the concerns raised by Actinopolyspora biskrensis on PubPeer [1], which identified several concerns related to multiple figures in the paper. More specifically,
Figure 5a: The COX‐2 and B‐Actin bands are identical after a horizontal stretch.
Figure 6a: The image of the control and Carr panels shares overlapping features with Figure 8a of [2] and 4a of [3].
As a result of the investigation, the data and conclusions of this article are considered unreliable.
The authors have been informed of this decision but did not provide a response.
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