Retracted: Side-by-Side Comparison of the Biological Characteristics of Human Umbilical Cord and Adipose Tissue-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells

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BioMed Research International has retracted the article titled “Side-by-Side Comparison of the Biological Characteristics of Human Umbilical Cord and Adipose Tissue-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells” [1].

The article is one of four other articles [2–5] published by the same group of authors in 2012 and 2013.

It was found to contain duplicated figures and data, where some of the cytokine expression data presented in Table 1 of [2] are repeated in Table 3 of [1], Table 1 of [4], and Table 1 of [5].

Details of the figure duplication are as follows:(a)Figure 2 (a1 - a4) in [1] are the same as Figure 1d in [2] and Figure 2E in [3].(b)Figure 4 (a1, b1) in [1] are the same as Figures 2F and 2G in [3] and Figure 3 and 4 in [4].(c)Figure 6a in [1] is the same as Figure 2H in [3], but rotated, and Figure 2a in [2].(d)Figure 2 (b1, b3) in [1] are the same as the 1st and 3rd panel of Figure 2 in [5].(e)Figure 1a in [1] is the same as Figure 2B in [3].