Mediators of Inflammation has retracted the article titled “Protective Effects of Pretreatment with Oleanolic Acid in Rats in the Acute Phase of Hepatic Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury: Role of the PI3K/Akt Pathway” [1] due to errors identified with the figures. Following the publication of the article, concerns have been identified as originally raised on Pubpeer [2]:
The concerns are related to Figures 4, 5 and 6: (i)In Figure 4(a), 6 h p-PI3K displays a high amount of similarity with 3 h p-PI3K after narrowing. Additionally, the 0 h p-PI3K bands are also highly similar to the Prep p-PI3K bands after narrowing(ii)In Figure 5(a), the Prep AKT panel and the Prep GSK-3β panel in Figure 6(a) appear similar(iii)In Figure 6(a), the 0 hr p-GSK-3𝛽 and Prep p-GSK-3𝛽 of 6A are highly similar
The authors do not agree to the retraction, which has been agreed with the editorial board.
This notice replaces the corrigendum for the same issue [3], which was published in error.