Bahar E, Lee G-H, Bhattarai KR, et al. Drug Des Dev Ther. 2017;11:2605–2619.
The Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Drug Design, Development and Therapy wish to retract the published article.
Concerns were raised about the possibility of image duplication in the published article. Following a review, it was determined the article contained an unacceptable level of image duplication and the findings and conclusions in the presented study were no longer supported.
The affected figures within the present article are:
Figure 5 image Mn, Mn + Qct25 and Mn + Qct50
Figure 6 image Mn, Mn + Qct25 and Mn + Qct50
Figure 9 image Kidney Mn + Qct50 is the same presented in Figure 10 Kidney Mn + Qct50
Figure 9 Lung Control is the same presented in Figure 9 Lung Mn + Qct25, Mn + Qct50 and Figure 10 Lung Control
Figure 9 Lung Mn in the same presented in Figure 10 Lung Mn + Qct25
Figure 11 Liver Control is the same presented in Figure 11 Liver Mn + Qct50
Figure 11 Kidney Mn + Qct25 is the same as Figure 11 Kidney Mn + Qct50
It was established the author Entaz Bahar acted alone in the image manipulation, however the remaining authors accept accountability for all aspects of the work as part of their publication agreement.
Our decision-making was informed by COPE’s retraction guidelines. The authors cooperated throughout the process and agree with the decision to retract. The authors wish to apologize for this error.