Correction to “Characterisation of Impaired Wound Healing in a Preclinical Model of Induced Diabetes Using Wide-Field Imaging and Conventional Immunohistochemistry Assays”

Abstract

M. Saidian, J. R. T. Lakey, A. Ponticorvo, et al., “Characterisation of Impaired Wound Healing in a Preclinical Model of Induced Diabetes Using Wide-Field Imaging and Conventional Immunohistochemistry Assays,” International Wound Journal 16, no. 1 (2019): 144–152, https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.13005.

Concerns were raised by a third party regarding duplicated sections within Figures 2A and 3A and identical images used for Figures 3A and 4A in the article above. The authors admitted to the image compilation error in Figures 2A and 3A. The duplicated images in Figures 3A and 4A were confirmed to be a publisher error. The authors fully cooperated with the investigation and were able to retrieve most of the underlying raw data.

Although the authors could not provide the original images (the locations of the regions of interest [ROIs] for each wound were not recovered) used in the article, when re-analysing their raw data, they could confirm the same trends as observed before, therefore the experimental results and corresponding conclusions mentioned in the paper remain unaffected.

Figure 2A

Figure 3A

Figure 4A

Representative SFDI maps for evaluating oxygen saturation for one non-diabetic control rat and one diabetic rat. The yellower colour indicates higher oxygen saturation levels, and the darker (redder) colour represents lower oxygen saturation.

The authors and the publisher sincerely apologise for this oversight.