Retraction Notice: Neurospheres Induced from Human Adipose-Derived Stem Cells as a New Source of Neural Progenitor Cells

At the request of the Journal Editors and Sage the following article has been retracted:

Peng C, Lu L, Li Y, Hu J. Neurospheres Induced from Human Adipose-Derived Stem Cells as a New Source of Neural Progenitor Cells. Cell Transplantation. 2019;28(1_suppl):66S-75S. doi:10.1177/0963689719888619.

A reader contacted Sage with the following concern:

Figure 1C of the article appears highly similar to Figure 2b bFGF only panel in a publication by different authors¹.

The authors did not comply with our request for the original data and unedited figures of the published article. Due to unresolved concerns about the integrity of the original images and the overall integrity of the research, the article has been retracted.

References:

1. Chunyang Peng, Yajiao Li, Li Lu, Jianwen Zhu, Huiyu Li, Jingqiong Hu, "Efficient One-Step Induction of Human Umbilical Cord-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells (UC-MSCs) Produces MSC-Derived Neurospheres (MSC-NS) with Unique Transcriptional Profile and Enhanced Neurogenic and Angiogenic Secretomes", Stem Cells International, vol. 2019, Article ID 9208173, 15 pages, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/9208173.

The authors did not respond to the retraction notice.