RETRACTED: The protective role of sulforaphane and Homer1a in retinal ischemia-reperfusion injury: Unraveling the neuroprotective interplay

• Published in: Life sciences (1973) Vol. 329; p. 121968
• Main Authors: Saadh, Mohamed J., Castillo-Acobo, Roxana Yolanda, Baher, Hala, Narayanan, Jayasankar, Palacios Garay, Jessica Paola, Vera Yamaguchi, Michelle Naomi, Arias-Gonzáles, José Luis, Cotrina-Aliaga, Juan Carlos, Akram, Shaik Vaseem, Lakshmaiya, Natrayan, Amin, Ali H., Mohany, Mohamed, Al-Rejaie, Salim S., Ahsan, Muhammad, Bahrami, Abolfazl, Akhavan-Sigari, Reza
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc 15.09.2023
• ISSN: 0024-3205; 1879-0631
• DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2023.121968

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of Editor-in-Chief, based on an anonymous complaint to the journal that: 1). The company mentioned in the method providing experiment material stated they never provided the authors related materials; 2). There are signs of image manipulation in the paper. An in-house image investigation has identified evidence for image manipulation in Fig. 3B, 3D, 3J, 3L, 5E, and 5G. The Editor asked the authors for an explaination. The corresponding author replied that his assistant confused the names of two companies when purchasing the experimental materials. As regards image manipulation in Figs. 3 and 5, the corresponding author replied that the lab assistant who prepared the data “may imagine enhancing the beauty of the team's images”. Furthermore, the corresponding author also confessed that the flow cytometry data in Figs. 3G and 5B “have been wrongly replaced due to the high similarity with their data output”. The manipulation of images and data in this way is a serious offense to the integrity of the scientific community and casts doubts on all the data, and accordingly also the conclusions based on that data in this publication. Due to the above concerns, the Editor decided to retract the paper.