RETRACTION: T. S. Waris, S. T. Abbas Shah, A. Mehmood, et al., “Design and development of thyroxine/heparin releasing affordable cotton dressings to treat chronic wounds,” Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine 2022 (2022): term.3295, https://doi.org/10.1002/term.3295.
The above article, published online on 4 March 2022 in Wiley Online Library (https://wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement between the journal's Chief Editor Catherine K. Kuo and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
The retraction has been agreed following an investigation of the concerns raised by Mycosphaerella arachidis on PubPeer [1], which identified unexpected similarities between multiple panels of Figure 6(a).
More specifically, the images depicting the wounds of animals in the Hep-W and Control-W groups after 20 days appear identical to the image of the T4-W group after 15 days. Further concerns have also been identified related to the similarity of two panels to images shown in Figure 7 from another publication by the author group, where they are attributed to a different experimental condition [2].
As a result of the investigation, the data and conclusions of this article are considered unreliable.
The authors disagree with this retraction.
References
- 1. Mycosphaerella arachidis, “Design and development of thyroxine/heparin releasing affordable cotton dressings to treat chronic wounds,” PubPeer, September 2023, https://pubpeer.com/publications/272353B69EEDFFB06D2C5221DEBFBD.
- 2.Waris T. S., Abbas Shah S. T., Mehmood A., et al. Chitosan-sodium percarbonate-based hydrogels with sustained oxygen release potential stimulated angiogenesis and accelerated wound healing. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research . 2024;112(1):p. e35344. doi: 10.1002/jbm.b.35344. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]