[Corrigendum] Inactivation of von Hippel‑Lindau increases ovarian cancer cell aggressiveness through the HIF1α/miR‑210/VMP1 signaling pathway.

Abstract

Following the publication of the above paper, a concerned reader drew the Editor's attention to the fact that a number of data panels shown for the cell migration assay data in Fig. 1C on p. 1238 and Fig. 3A on p. 1240 appeared to contain overlapping sections, such that data which were intended to show the results of differently performed experiments were apparently derived from a much smaller number of original sources. The authors were contacted by the Editorial Office to offer an explanation for these apparent anomalies in the presentation of the data in this paper, and they have replied to confirm that Figs. 1 and 3 were assembled incorrectly; moreover, although the overlapping images appeared to represent different fields of view, the authors suspected that the errors may have occurred when misfiled images were inserted from the wrong folder during figure preparation. In addition to the issues with Figs. 1 and 3, and even though there were no obvious issues of data mishandling present, the authors also declared that they were unable to retrieve the original experimental data relating to the cell migration assay experiments shown in Fig. 4. The authors requested that the cell migration experiments pertaining to Figs. 1, 3 and 4 be repeated, and the Editor agreed to the authors' request. The revised versions of Figs. 1, 3 and 4, now showing new data for Figs. 1C, 3A and 4B, together with new histograms that have been prepared for the re‑quantification of the new data, are shown on the next two pages. Note that the results obtained from the newly performed experiments were broadly similar to the originally published results, and therefore the revisions made to these three figures have not grossly affected either the results or the conclusions reported in this study. All the authors agree with the publication of this Corrigendum, and they are grateful to the Editor of International Journal of Molecular Medicine for granting them the opportunity to publish this Corrigendum; furthermore, they apologize to the readership of the Journal for any inconvenience caused. [International Journal of Molecular Medicine 33: 1236‑1242, 2014; DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2014.1661].