For the article “Human Cardiac Stem Cell Differentiation Is Regulated by a Mircrine Mechanism” (Circulation. 2011;123:1287–1296;DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.982918) by Toru Hosoda, Hanqiao Zheng, Mauricio Cabral-da-Silva, Fumihiro Sanada, Noriko Ide-Iwata, Barbara Ogórek, João Ferreira-Martins, Christian Arranto, Domenico D’Amario, Federica del Monte, Konrad Urbanek, David A. D’Alessandro, Robert E. Michler, Piero Anversa, Marcello Rota, Jan Kajstura, and Annarosa Leri, an investigation by Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) has determined that there were issues with some of the data reported in the article, specifically Figure 7B. An expression of concern was published on November 20, 2018,1 to alert readers that the American Heart Association was communicating with the authors and reviewing the materials provided by BWH. After considering input from authors, the American Heart Association has determined that the best interest of the public and the research community will be served by issuing this notice of retraction.
The American Heart Association, therefore, retracts the article.
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