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Morphine preconditioning study in rat cardiomyocytes faces retraction due to image duplication concerns.
This is a retraction notice for a previously published article due to image duplication concerns.
This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal). Post-publication, the journal was alerted to concerns about potential duplications between the flow cytometry images shown in Figures 5 and 7, as well as the western blot bands shown in Figures 6 and 8. These concerns were also raised on PubPeer (https://pubpeer.com/publications/A3E400704B0FACB79EDAE1DDEE1662). The journal reached out to the authors for an explanation.
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He et al. (2026) studied Cardioprotection in rat cardiomyocytes. The article investigating microRNA-133b-5p in morphine preconditioning of rat cardiomyocytes was retracted due to concerns regarding potential duplications in flow cytometry and western blot images.
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