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Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, "Retracted: 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, vol. 2020, Article ID 2938051, 1 page, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/2938051
Retracted: 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 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. (Supplementary Materials)
References
- X. Hu, H. Lu, Y.-l. Deng, Q. Wan, and 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, vol. 2015, Article ID 825805, 17 pages, 2015. View at: Publisher Site | Google Scholar
- 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#.
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