The Chief Editor has retracted this article following an institutional investigation by the University of Wyoming due to concerns regarding data irregularities and re-use of images with different labels. Specifically, images from Fig. 5E labelled as cardiomyocytes from ETAKO young and old mice appear to have been published previously in Fig. 7A in [1] and Fig. 3A in [2] with different labels.
The author Jun Ren has not explicitly stated whether he agrees to this retraction notice or not. The authors Asli F. Ceylan-Isik, Maolong Dong, Yingmei Zhang, Feng Dong, Subat Turdi, Sreejayan Nair, Masashi Yanagisawa have not responded to any correspondence from the editor or publisher about this retraction.
Footnotes
The original article can be found online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00395-013-0335-3.
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