Withdrawal: Cardiac overexpression of myotrophin triggers myocardial hypertrophy and heart failure in transgenic mice. [Withdrawals/Retractions]

This article has been withdrawn by Sagartirtha Sarkar, Douglas W. Leaman, Parames Sil, Annitta Morehead, Debabrata Mukherjee, Joe Hollyfield, and Subha Sen. Sudhiranjan Gupta, David Young, Norman Ratliff, Yaping Sun, and Mary Rayborn could not be reached. The images from 1-year-old mice shown in Fig. 1A were reused in the subsequent JBC article Sarkar, S., et al. (2004) J. Biol. Chem. 279, 52630–52642 as 9-month-old mice. The images shown in Fig. 1C (II) as 18-week-old mice were also reused in the same publication (Sarkar, S., et al. (2004) J. Biol. Chem. 279, 52630–52642) as 9-month-old mice. The GAPDH immunoblot shown in Fig. 2B (1) was reused in Sarkar, S., et al. (2004) J. Biol. Chem. 279, 52630–52642. The withdrawing authors do not agree to the Journal's decision as the concerned images of Fig. 1 were reused in the second JBC article (Sarkar, S., et al. (2004) J. Biol. Chem. 279, 52630–52642) only to introduce the model in that article as per the reviewer's suggestion, and no new data were put forward using these image panels. The withdrawing authors also disagree with the Journal's statement of the reuse of the GAPDH immunoblot. The withdrawing authors requested the journal to not withdraw this publication because no data in this particular article are in question and the subsequent JBC article (Sarkar, S., et al. (2004) J. Biol. Chem. 279, 52630–52642) is to be withdrawn by the authors for the same figure panel duplication. The request was however declined by...
Source: Journal of Biological Chemistry - Category: Chemistry Authors: Tags: Withdrawals/Retractions Source Type: research