Erratum: Inhibition of LXRα-dependent steatosis and oxidative injury by liquiritigenin, a licorice flavonoid, as mediated with Nrf2 activation (Antioxidants and Redox Signaling (2011) 14 (733-745))

摘要

This work (1) has been retracted because data claimed by authors to be erroneous were published. Antioxidants & Redox Signaling (ARS) was thankfully alerted about possible data duplication by a reader who is also an ARS author. Briefly, the reader alleged that Figure 1 of the current work (1) and Figures 4 and 5 of another work by the same group (2) contained duplicated data. The reader noticed at least one case where identical data was represented as originating from two independent and unrelated experiments. It was also alleged that some data in Figure 2 of the retracted work (1) are repeated in Table 1 of another publication by the same group (3). Upon discussion with the corresponding author, it was found that the published manuscript (1) did contain incorrect data. The corresponding author acknowledged that erroneous figures were submitted and requested a retraction of their publication (1). The author statement explaining the retraction is published below.