Retracted article: Tranilast attenuates neuropathic pain during type-2 diabetes by inhibiting hypoxia-induced pro-inflammatory cytokines in Zucker diabetic fatty rat model

Abstract

We, the Editors and Publisher of the journalArchives of Physiology and Biochemistry, have retracted the following article:

Wei Zhang, Jun Ma, Shan Wang, Tao Huang & Min Xia (2020) Tranilast attenuates neuropathic pain during type-2 diabetes by inhibiting hypoxia-induced pro-inflammatory cytokines in Zucker diabetic fatty rat model, Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry, DOI: 10.1080/13813455.2020.1854309

Since publication, the authors informed the Publisher and Editor that the authors had not received ethics approval from the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) at the time that their research was conducted. As the Editor and Publisher also have concerns about the integrity of the reported results which the authors have been unable to address, all parties have agreed to retract the article to ensure correction of the scholarly record.

We have been informed in our decision-making by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines on retractions.

The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as ‘Retracted’.

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Statement of Retraction: Tranilast attenuates neuropathic pain during type-2 diabetes by inhibiting hypoxia-induced pro-inflammatory cytokines in Zucker diabetic fatty rat model