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Retraction: The role of Sox9 in collagen hydrogel-mediated chondrogenic differentiation of adult mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs)
Xianfang
Jiang
a,
Xianyuan
Huang
b,
Tongmeng
Jiang
bc,
Li
Zheng
*bde,
Jinmin
Zhao
bde and
Xingdong
Zhang
f
aThe College of Stomatology, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China
bGuangxi Engineering Center in Biomedical Material for Tissue and Organ Regeneration, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China. E-mail: zhengli224@163.com; Fax: +86-07715350975; Tel: +86-07715358132
cDepartment of Orthopaedics Trauma and Hand Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China
dGuangxi Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomedicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China
eGuangxi Key Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China
fNational Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
First published on 28th March 2023
Abstract
Retraction of ‘The role of Sox9 in collagen hydrogel-mediated chondrogenic differentiation of adult mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs)’ by Xianfang Jiang et al., Biomater. Sci., 2018, 6, 1556–1568, https://doi.org/10.1039/C8BM00317C.
The Royal Society of Chemistry, with the agreement of the named author, hereby wholly retracts this Biomaterials Science article due to concerns with the reliability of the data in the published article. After publication, a correction was published to address partially overlapping images in Fig. 4a. However, further concerns were raised regarding the integrity of Fig. 2a and Fig. 5a.
Repeating fragments can be observed in the MSCs-collagen panel in Fig. 5a.
In Fig. 2a, the MSCs-collagen/14 days panel partially overlaps with the MSCs-collagen/21 days panel.
Xianfang Jiang, Xianyuan Huang, Tongmeng Jiang, Jinmin Zhao and Xingdong Zhang were contacted but did not respond.
Signed: Li Zheng
Date: 17th March 2023
Retraction endorsed by Maria Southall, Executive Editor, Biomaterials Science
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