RETRACTION: Extracellular HSP27 Mediates Angiogenesis Through Toll-Like Receptor 3

Abstract

RETRACTION: D. Thuringer, G. Jego, G. Wettstein, O. Terrier, L. Cronier, N. Yousfi, S. Hébrard, A. Bouchot, A. Hazoumé, A.-L. Joly, M. Gleave, M. Rosa-Calatrava, E. Solary, and C. Garrido, “Extracellular HSP27 Mediates Angiogenesis Through Toll-Like Receptor 3,” The FASEB Journal 27, no. 10 (2013): 4169-4183, https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.12-226977.

The above article, published online on 26 June 2013 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement between the authors; the journal Editor-in-Chief, Loren E. Wold; the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology; and Wiley Periodicals LLC. The retraction has been agreed upon following an investigation into concerns raised by a third party which revealed inappropriate image panel duplications between this (Figure 3A) and another article published previously in a different scientific context. The investigation also revealed that the western blot panels of Figure 4E were later reused in a publication of the same author group, depicting different experimental conditions. Due to the number and the level of errors identified in the published figures, the authors and the editors have lost confidence in the presented data and consider the conclusions substantially compromised.