RETRACTED: Ghrelin protects infarcted myocardium by induction of autophagy and AMP-activated protein kinase pathway

Ming-Jie Yuan; Bin Kong; Tao Wang; Xin Wang; He Huang; Taneen Maghsoudi

doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2016.05.128

RETRACTED: Ghrelin protects infarcted myocardium by induction of autophagy and AMP-activated protein kinase pathway

Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2016 Aug 5;476(4):365-370. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2016.05.128. Epub 2016 May 26.

Authors

Ming-Jie Yuan¹, Bin Kong², Tao Wang³, Xin Wang², He Huang², Taneen Maghsoudi³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Cardiovascular Research Institute of Wuhan University, Hubei Key Laboratory of Cardiology, Jiefang Road 238, Wuchang, 430060, Wuhan, PR China. Electronic address: yuanmj8341@163.com.
² Department of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Cardiovascular Research Institute of Wuhan University, Hubei Key Laboratory of Cardiology, Jiefang Road 238, Wuchang, 430060, Wuhan, PR China.
³ Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Virginia, MR5 Building, Room 1332, 415 Lane RD, Charlottesville, VA 22908, United States.

PMID: 27235554
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2016.05.128

Abstract

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. It contains LM images in figure 2E, which were originally published in Nat. Comm. 6/2015, p. 1-14 (http://doi:10.1038/ncomms8388). Permission to reproduce this figure was not requested nor granted by the authors of the original article for its re-use. The authors of this article would like to apologize to all affected parties.

Keywords: Autophagy; Cardiac function; Ghrelin; Myocardial infarction; Signal pathway.