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A reader alerted the Editorial Office on the 14th November 2019 regarding concerns about the data presented in Figures 3 and 5 of the above paper. The authors, in correspondence with the Cardiovascular Research Editorial Office, have confirmed that the samples were randomized to be run on a western blot and then the resulting blots were spliced together for the purposes of figure representation.
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