Retraction of: Protective effects of mitophagy enhancers against amyloid beta-induced mitochondrial and synaptic toxicities in Alzheimer disease

This is a retraction of: Sudhir Kshirsagar, Neha Sawant, Hallie Morton, Arubala P Reddy, P Hemachandra Reddy, Protective effects of mitophagy enhancers against amyloid beta-induced mitochondrial and synaptic toxicities in Alzheimer disease, Human Molecular Genetics, Volume 31, Issue 3, 1 February 2022, Pages 423–439, https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddab262.

In November 2023, the journal published a correction¹ due to mislabeling in Figures 4, 5, 6, and 8B.

In June 2024, the first author contacted the journal requesting further corrections to Figures 5A and 6A, as well as changes to Figure 2A, due to similarities in the beta actin blots, which had been raised by a reader and acknowledged by the first author. However, given the extent of the image alterations that have been requested by the authors, the editors no longer have confidence in the reliability of the results reported and are retracting this article.

The journal has notified all authors of this decision prior to publication of this retraction notice and they disagree with the decision to retract.

¹“Correction to: Protective effects of mitophagy enhancers against amyloid beta induced mitochondrial and synaptic toxicities in Alzheimer disease,” Human Molecular Genetics, Volume 32, Issue 22, 15 November 2023, Pages 3205–3210, https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddad156