BioMed Research International has retracted the article titled “Potentiated Osteoinductivity via Cotransfection with BMP-2 and VEGF Genes in Microencapsulated C2C12 Cells” [1] due to errors identified with the figures.
Following the publication of the article, concerns have been identified by the authors with figures of the article and also raised on Pubpeer [2]:
The concerns are related to Figures 1 and 2: (i)The authors raised that in Figure 1(a), the image of ADSCs was incorrectly selected by them.(ii)In addition, Figure 2(b) 1w ADSCs, Figure 2(b) 4w SMSCs and Figure 2(c) 4w C2C12 were selected inappropriately.(iii)While assessing these concerns, it was also found that Figure 2(b) ADSCs at 1 week is the same as Figure 2(c) NIH/3 T3 at 1 week, with the contrast and exposure adjusted. This was not raised by the authors during their correction request.
The authors did not provide a satisfactory response. Hence, this article is being retracted with the agreement of the editorial board.