We, the Publisher and Editor of Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine, and Biotechnology, have retracted the following article:
Lina Lv, Dandan Li, Fengqun Tian, Xia Li, Jing Zhang & Xiulian Yu (2019) Silence of lncRNA GAS5 alleviates high glucose toxicity to human renal tubular epithelial HK-2 cells through regulation of miR-27a. Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine, and Biotechnology, 47(1), 2205–2212, DOI: 10.1080/21691401.2019.1616552
After publication of this article, questions about the scientific integrity of the article content were brought to the Publisher and Editor’s attention. We reached out to the authors requesting that they supply information that would confirm the article’s integrity. The authors provided several files in response to our queries, but they were unable to provide the original data in a format which satisfies our requirements to confirm the authenticity of some types of data. In particular, they were unable to provide full western blots, where the molecular weight markers are indicated. It has also come to our attention that the authorship list for this manuscript was changed after the article was accepted. We have contacted the corresponding author for an explanation, but we have not received a response. As determining authorship is core to the integrity of published work, and the authors have also not been able to verify the integrity of their data, we are retracting the article. The corresponding author listed in this publication has been informed.
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The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted”.