Mediators of Inflammation
Volume 2020 (2020), Article ID 9195623, 1 page
https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/9195623

Retraction

Retracted: Neuropilin-1highCD4⁺CD25⁺ Regulatory T Cells Exhibit Primary Negative Immunoregulation in Sepsis

Mediators of Inflammation

Received 4 July 2020; Accepted 14 July 2020; Published 18 September 2020

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Mediators of Inflammation has retracted the article titled “Neuropilin-1highCD4⁺CD25⁺ Regulatory T Cells Exhibit Primary Negative Immunoregulation in Sepsis” [1] due to figure duplication between articles by the same authors and within the article.

Figure duplication concerns were raised to our attention and then noted on PubPeer [2]. A reassessment of the article concluded that a number of panels in Figure 1(e-f) and Figure 2(c) of [1] were duplicated with panels in Figure 2 of [3]. Duplications with another article were also identified [4], where the first, second, and fourth panels of Figure 4(c) are duplicated by the seventh, eighth and ninth panels of Figure 1(e) in [1].

Duplications were also identified within the article [1]:

(i)Panel 4 in Figure 1(e) is the same as panel 10 in Figure 2(c).(ii)Panel 1 in Figure 1(f) is the same as panel 5 in Figure 1(f).

The authors did not provide a satisfactory response and the article is therefore being retracted with the agreement of the Chief Editor. The authors do not agree to the retraction.

References

Y.-L. Gao, Y.-F. Chai, A.-L. Qi et al., “Neuropilin-1highCD4⁺CD25⁺ Regulatory T Cells Exhibit Primary Negative Immunoregulation in Sepsis,” Mediators of Inflammation, vol. 2016, Article ID 7132158, 11 pages, 2016.

“PubPeer,” July 2018, https://pubpeer.com/publications/F1347D008AC3E082905B723B93E16C.

Y.-L. Gao, B. Lu, J.-H. Zhai et al., “The Parenteral Vitamin C Improves Sepsis and Sepsis-Induced Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome via Preventing Cellular Immunosuppression,” Mediators of Inflammation, vol. 2017, Article ID 4024672, 12 pages, 2017.

Y. Gao, M. Yu, S. Shou et al., “Tuftsin prevents the negative immunoregulation of neuropilin-1highCD4⁺CD25⁺Regulatory T cells and improves survival rate in septic mice,” Oncotarget, vol. 7, no. 49, pp. 81791–81805, 2016.