RETRACTION: Involvement of Heme Oxygenase‐1 Participates in Anti‐Inflammatory and Analgesic Effects of Aqueous Extract of Hibiscus taiwanensis

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RETRACTION: S.‐L. Liu, J.‐S. Deng, C.‐S. Chiu, et al., “Involvement of Heme Oxygenase‐1 Participates in Anti‐Inflammatory and Analgesic Effects of Aqueous Extract of Hibiscus taiwanensis,” Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, vol. 2012 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/132859.

The above article, published online on 21 June 2012 in Wiley Online Library (https://wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

The retraction has been agreed following an investigation of the concerns raised by Actinopolyspora biskrensis on PubPeer [1], which identified several concerns related to multiple figures in the paper. More specifically,

Figure 5a: The COX‐2 and B‐Actin bands are identical after a horizontal stretch.

Figure 6a: The image of the control and Carr panels shares overlapping features with Figure 8a of [2] and 4a of [3].

As a result of the investigation, the data and conclusions of this article are considered unreliable.

The authors have been informed of this decision but did not provide a response.