Retraction of: Scientific Reports 10.1038/s41598-019-51770-0, published online 29 October 2019
The authors have retracted this Article.
After publication, the authors reported several irregularities in the histopathology images presented, specifically:
Figure 3A: The H&E/PI panel looks identical to the PI/H&E (day 20) panel in Figure 4.
Figure 3A: The MT/NT panel looks identical to the PI/MT (day 60) panel in Figure 4.
Figure 4: The APN + PBS/PAS (day 50) panel was edited to bring the glomeruli closer together.
Amin Ahmadi, Vahid Ezzatizadeh, Mehdi Alikhani, Fatemeh Hadi, and Hossein Baharvand agree to this retraction. Seyed Mahdi Nassiri does not agree with this retraction. Reza Moghadasali, Zeinab Taghizadeh, Mohammad Hassan Asghari-Vostikolaee, Reza Rahbarghazi, Reza Salman Yazdi, and Nasser Aghdami did not respond to correspondence relating to this retraction.
Footnotes
This article has been retracted. Please see the retraction notice for more detail: 10.1038/s41598-019-51770-0.
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