We, the Editors and Publisher of the journal Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine, and Biotechnology, have retracted the following article:
Guoping Wang, Yuanbo Wu & Yuyou Zhu (2018) Mechanism of MALAT1 preventing apoptosis of vascular endothelial cells induced by oxygen–glucose deficiency and reoxidation. Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine, and Biotechnology, 46(sup1), 798–805, DOI: 10.1080/21691401.2018.1436065
Since publication, the authors repeated some of their experiments and found that under the same conditions they could not repeat the results reported in this paper. In addition, concerns were raised regarding the high degrees of similarity with the following previously published paper: Jia-Wei Xin & Yu-gang Jiang (2017) Long noncoding RNA MALAT1 inhibits apoptosis induced by oxygen-glucose deprivation and reoxygenation in human brain microvascular endothelial cells, Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine, 13(4), 1225–1234, DOI: 10.3892/etm.2017.4095. As this directly impacts the integrity of the reported results and conclusions, the authors alerted the issue to the Editor and Publisher and all 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The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted”.