Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine has retracted the article titled “Effect of Rat Medicated Serum Containing Zuo Gui Wan and/or You Gui Wan on the Differentiation of Stem Cells Derived from Human First Trimester Umbilical Cord into Oocyte-Like Cells In Vitro” [1], due to indications of image manipulation and duplication as raised on PubPeer [2].
The western blots in Figure 5 show signs of duplication and other manipulation. In Figure 2, the 0 day panel in (a) was duplicated in the 0 day panel in (b).
The authors provided a corrected image for the 0 day panel for 2(b) and provided high-resolution images showing no duplication in Figure 3(b) in the DAPI panels (see the supplementary materials). However, the original images for the western blots in Figure 5 were not available.
Supplementary Materials
Corrected image for the 0 day panel for 2(b) and provided high-resolution images showing no duplication in Figure 3(b) in the DAPI panels.
References
- 1.Hu X., Lu H., Deng Y.-l., Wan Q., Shang-mian Yie Effect of Rat Medicated Serum Containing Zuo Gui wan and/or You Gui Wan on the Differentiation of Stem Cells Derived from Human First Trimester Umbilical Cord into Oocyte-Like Cells In Vitro. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2015;2015:17. doi: 10.1155/2015/825805.825805 [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar] [Retracted]
- 2. Actinopolyspora Biskrensis, Effect of Rat Medicated Serum Containing Zuo Gui Wan And/or You Gui Wan on the Differentiation of Stem Cells Derived from Human First Trimester Umbilical Cord into Oocyte-like Cells in Vitro, 2015, https://pubpeer.com/publications/6D33A1872450EA792B96E1030C54A6#. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Retracted]
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Supplementary Materials
Corrected image for the 0 day panel for 2(b) and provided high-resolution images showing no duplication in Figure 3(b) in the DAPI panels.