Retraction notice to "Effects of geniposide on hepatocytes undergoing epithelial-mesenchymal transition in hepatic fibrosis by targeting TGFβ/Smad and ERK-MAPK signaling pathways" [Biochimie 113 (2015) 26-34]

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This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. The corresponding author, Dr Byoungduck Park, requested publication of a corrigendum to correct Fig. 2B which reused control data from a different publication (doi: 10.1016/j.intimp.2015.02.014). Upon further inspection, the Biochimie editorial team noticed that: Comparison of Fig. 2B with Fig. 4C of a previous publication in International Immunopharmacology by two co-authors (doi: 10.1016/j.intimp.2015.02.014) reveals that western blot β-actin control data from the earlier paper were re-used in a different experiment shown in Fig. 2B of the article in Biochimie, after adjustment of the brightness/contrast. Furthermore, the same bands, after more image manipulation were presented as Smad3 data in Fig. 4C of the Biochimie article. Here the image manipulation involved notably the rotation of the set of bands by 180° and some adjustment of the height/width ratio. The authors apologise for any confusion that may have arisen from their article.