Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology has retracted the article titled “Induction of Heat Shock Protein Expression in Cervical Epithelial Cells by Human Semen” [1]. The article was found to report the same results, without citation, as the following published article: J. Jeremias, S. S. David, M. Toth, S. S. Witkin, “Induction of messenger RNA for the 70 kDa heat shock protein in HeLa cells and the human endocervix following exposure to semen: implications for antisperm antibody production and susceptibility to sexually transmitted infections,” Human Reproduction (1997) 12 (9): 1915–1919. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/12.9.1915 [2]. The last author does not approve of retraction and the other authors could not be contacted.
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Retracted: Induction of Heat Shock Protein Expression in Cervical Epithelial Cells by Human Semen
Received29 Oct 2017
Accepted29 Oct 2017
Published13 Nov 2017
References
J. C. Jeremias, A. M. Bongiovanni, and S. S. Witkin, “Induction of heat shock protein expression in cervical epithelial cells by human semen,” Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology, vol. 7, no. 1-2, pp. 17–22, 1999.
View at: Publisher Site | Google ScholarJ. Jeremias, S. S. David, M. Toth, and S. S. Witkin, “Induction of messenger RNA for the 70 kDa heat shock protein in HeLa cells and the human endocervix following exposure to semen: implications for antisperm antibody production and susceptibility to sexually transmitted infections,” Human Reproduction, vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 1915–1919, 1997.
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