This article [1] has been retracted by the Editors-in-Chief. Based on the report of an inquiry conducted by Wayne State University and additional analysis conducted by the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) [2], the ORI informed the journal that the first author Dr Teresita L. Briones engaged in research misconduct by falsifying and/or fabricating data by falsely reporting the results of western blot experiments and that data reported in Figures 2A and 2C in [1] were duplicated, reused and falsely relabelled, and claimed to represent different experiments. We have not been able to contact any of the authors.
Footnotes
The online version of the original article can be found under doi:10.1186/1742-2094-11-13.
References
- 1.Briones TL, Woods J, Wadowska M. Chronic neuroinflammation and cognitive impairment following transient global cerebral ischemia: role of fractalkine/CX3CR1 signaling. J Neuroinflammation. 2014;11:13. doi: 10.1186/1742-2094-11-13. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar] [Retracted]
- 2.The Office of Research Integrity: Case Summary: Briones, Teresita L. https://ori.hhs.gov/content/case-summary-briones-teresita-l/ (2015). Accessed 30 Jul 2015.