Advertisement
Browse Subject Areas
?

Click through the PLOS taxonomy to find articles in your field.

For more information about PLOS Subject Areas, click here.

  • Loading metrics

Open Access

Retraction

Retraction: Hydrogen Sulfide Attenuated Tumor Necrosis Factor-α-Induced Inflammatory Signaling and Dysfunction in Vascular Endothelial Cells

  • The PLOS ONE Editors

After this article [1] was published, concerns were raised about Figs 3–7.

Specifically, when color levels are adjusted to visualize the backgrounds, the following concerns were identified:

  • In Fig 3A, there appear to be vertical discontinuities in the background of the:
    1. ○ ICAM-1 panel, between lanes 3 and 4.
    2. ○ VCAM-1 panel, between lanes 1 and 2.
    3. ○ Tubulin panel, between lanes 1/2 and 2/3.
  • In the Fig 4B HO-1 panel, there appears to be a vertical discontinuity in the background between lanes 2 and 3.
  • In Fig 5A, similarities were noted between the Control and TNF-a+NAC panels.
  • In the Fig 6A ERK panel:
    1. ○ Similarities were noted between bands in lanes 1 and 4.
    2. ○ The background area around the band in lane 1 appears to be discontinuous with adjacent background areas.
    3. ○ There appears to be a vertical discontinuity in the background between lanes 2 and 3.
  • In Fig 6B, there appear to be vertical discontinuities in the background of the p-p38 panel between lanes 1 and 2, 3 and 4, and 4 and 5.
  • In the Fig 6C JNK panel:
    1. ○ Similarities were noted between bands in lanes 1 and 5.
    2. ○ There appears to be a vertical discontinuity in the background between lanes 1 and 2.
  • In the Fig 7C pp65 panel, there appears to be a vertical discontinuity in the background between lanes 1 and 2.
  • In the Fig 7D p65 (C) panel, there appears to be a vertical discontinuity in the background between lanes 2 and 3.

The authors did not respond to correspondence concerning these issues.

In light of the nature and extent of the above concerns, the PLOS ONE Editors retract this article.

All authors either did not respond directly or could not be reached.

Reference

  1. 1. Pan L-L, Liu X-H, Gong Q-H, Wu D, Zhu Y-Z (2011) Hydrogen Sulfide Attenuated Tumor Necrosis Factor-α-Induced Inflammatory Signaling and Dysfunction in Vascular Endothelial Cells. PLoS ONE 6(5): e19766. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019766

Citation: The PLOS ONE Editors (2024) Retraction: Hydrogen Sulfide Attenuated Tumor Necrosis Factor-α-Induced Inflammatory Signaling and Dysfunction in Vascular Endothelial Cells. PLoS ONE 19(10): e0311557. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311557

Published: October 1, 2024

Copyright: © 2024 The PLOS ONE Editors. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.