RETRACTED: Long non-coding RNA NEAT1 plays an important role in sepsis-induced acute kidney injury by targeting miR-204 and modulating the NF-κB pathway
Authors: Guojin Xie
Youping Lin
Junming Qiu
Dongxin Jiang
Huasheng Tong
Yulan Chen
Yi Chen
Bin Chen
Jialing Qiu
Journal: International Immunopharmacology (2018)
Discipline: PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY
Keywords: Acute kidney injury; MiR-204; NEAT1; NF-κB pathway; Sepsis.
Affiliations: Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Fifth People's Hospital of Dongguan, Dongguan Hospital Affiliated to Medical College of Jinan University, Dongguan 523900, China., Department of Critical Care Medicine, Medical College of Jinan University, Jinan, Guangzhou 510000, China., Department of ICU, General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command, Key Laboratory of Tropical Zone Trauma Care and Tissue Repair of PLA, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China., Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Fifth People's Hospital of Dongguan, Dongguan Hospital Affiliated to Medical College of Jinan University, Dongguan 523900, China. Electronic address: .

Abstract:  This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of authors with the approval of the Editor-in-Chief. Panel ‘LPS+sh-NEAT1’ from Figure 2C appears similar to panel ‘si-PVT1’ from Figure 2A of the article published by Wei Huang, Xiuwen Lan, Xueting Li, Dawei Wang, Yinghao Sun, Qian Wang, Hong Gao and Kaijiang Yu in the International Immunopharmacology 47 (2017) 134-140 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intimp.2017.03.030 and panel ‘Control’ from Figure 1D of the article published by Xiaodi Liu, Chengying Hong, Shipin Wu, Shiling Song, Zhi Yang, Lin Cao, Tongwei Song and Ying Yang in the Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 120 (2019) 11331-11341 https://doi.org/10.1002/jcb.28409. Given the comments of Dr Elisabeth Bik https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2020/02/21/the-tadpole-paper-mill/ regarding this article, the journal requested the corresponding author to provide the raw data. However, the author was not able to fulfil this request. 

Retracted: Yes

PubPeer comments:
 Fig 2  C: NEAT1 suppression significantly decreased the number of apoptotic cells in LPS-stimulated RMCs . ![file] The marked panel previously appeared in Fig 2A of [Huang et al (2017)] . There are no credit authors in common, leading to the suspicion that both papers were really the work of a papermill. ![file] UPDATE: Also Fig 2D of [Liu et al (2019)] ![] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Fig 4D: ![file] Is it normal for a FACS plot to look so much like a zebrafish embryo? ![] , 
 This paper belongs to a set of over 400 papers (as per February 2020) that share very similar Western blots with tadpole-like shaped bands, the same background pattern, and striking similarities in title structures, paper layout, bar graph design, and - in a subset - flow cytometry panels. Despite these similarities, these papers are authored by researchers from different departments and institutes, with almost no overlap in authors. The list of these papers is available here: https: docs.google.com spreadsheets d 1KXqTAyl4j-jVorFPMD2XRpr76LcIKJ0CVyIvRj0exYQ edit?usp=sharing A more detailed description of this set of papers, suspected to all be generated by a common source, a paper mill , can be found here: * https: forbetterscience.com 2020 01 24 the-full-service-paper-mill-and-its-chinese-customers (January 2020) * https: scienceintegritydigest.com 2020 02 21 the-tadpole-paper-mill (February 2020) The same paper mill has been described in these papers: * Jana Christopher - Systematic fabrication of scientific images revealed - FEBS Letters (2018) - https: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com doi full 10.1002 1873-3468.13201 * Jennifer A Byrne and Jana Christopher - Digital magic, or the dark arts of the 21st centuryu2014how can journals and peer reviewers detect manuscripts and publications from paper mills? - FEBS Letters (2020) - https: febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com doi full 10.1002 1873-3468.13747 , 
 Retracted, [9 July 2021] . -------- This article has been retracted at the request of authors with the approval of the Editor-in-Chief. Panel u2018LPS+sh-NEAT1u2019 from Figure 2C appears similar to panel u2018si-PVT1u2019 from Figure 2A of the article published by Wei Huang, Xiuwen Lan, Xueting Li, Dawei Wang, Yinghao Sun, Qian Wang, Hong Gao and Kaijiang Yu in the International Immunopharmacology 47 (2017) 134-140 http: dx.doi.org 10.1016 j.intimp.2017.03.030 and panel u2018Controlu2019 from Figure 1D of the article published by Xiaodi Liu, Chengying Hong, Shipin Wu, Shiling Song, Zhi Yang, Lin Cao, Tongwei Song and Ying Yang in the Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 120 (2019) 11331-11341 https: doi.org 10.1002 jcb.28409. Given the comments of Dr Elisabeth Bik https: scienceintegritydigest.com 2020 02 21 the-tadpole-paper-mill regarding this article, the journal requested the corresponding author to provide the raw data. However, the author was not able to fulfil this request. ------------------------ No love for Hoya. Harrumph. ,