Annals of Translational Medicine (2022)
PMID: 36388801
DOI: 10.21037/atm-22-1206
AUTHORS
Qun Liu1,Shaole Song1,Lei Song2,Youkun Bi1,Keqi Zhu1,Xinlong Qiao2,Huiwen Wang1,Chao Gao3,Hong Cai3,Guangju Ji1AFFILIATIONS
1Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
3Department of Dermatology, Air Force Medical Center, PLA, Beijing, China.
#1René Aquarius 1 month ago
Dear authors,
We found unexpected overlap in one of your Figures (see enclosed image below).
We will contact the publisher to resolve this issue.
Kind regards,
Rene Aquarius
#2Phanerotoma Behriae 1 month ago
The authors refer to the ethics committee approval SYXK2020053 for this study:
The same ethics committee approval number appears in a different publication https://doi.org/10.1186/s13287-023-03449-7
These two research studies have different methodology and different number of mice is involved. Could the authors please explain why the same number of ethics committee approval is referred in both publications?
#3Qun Liu (author)1 month ago
#1
Regarding the duplication of images, we thank René Aquarius for the careful correction. We carefully checked the pictures of the mice involved in the article and indeed found duplications. As we took multiple photos from different angles when photographing the mice, our negligence led to the duplicate use of photos of the same mouse during the subsequent image selection process. It was never our intention to select the same photo of an aged mouse. Next, we will communicate with the editorial team of the journal to replace the corresponding images as soon as possible.
#4Qun Liu (author)1 month ago
#2
Thanks very much for the careful correction. The title of our animal experiment applied for the approval of the Ethics Committee was “Research on the interventional effects and mechanisms of stem cells and their derivatives in mouse models of several major diseases“. It includes several sub-topics such as aging and lung fibrosis, so the approval numbers of these two animal experiments are the same.
