Retraction

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Retraction: "Genetic deletion of GIT2 prolongs functional recovery and suppresses chondrocyte differentiation in rats with rheumatoid arthritis," by Hui Li, Shi-Bing Guan, Yi Lu, Fei Wang, Yu-Hong Liu, Qi-Yun Liu, J Cell Biochem. 2018; 1538-1547: The above article, published online on 04 August 2017 in Wiley Online Library (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jcb.26313) has been retracted by agreement between the the journal's Editor in Chief, Prof. Dr. Christian Behl, and Wiley Periodicals LLC. The authors asked to retract this manuscript as some data and experiments are flawed and validity of the overall results could not be confirmed. During an investigation based on allegations raised by a third party, several image elements of the experimental data were found to be published elsewhere in a different scientific context. The conclusions of this article are considered to be invalid.