RETRACTION: Chitosan-sodium percarbonate-based hydrogels with sustained oxygen release potential stimulated angiogenesis and accelerated wound healing

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T.S. Waris, S.T. Abbas Shah, A. Mehmood, A. Mushtaq, M. Zehra, S. Zulfiqar, A. Andleeb, F. Jabbar, M.A. Anjum, A.A. Chaudhry, I. Ur Rehman, and M. Yar, "Chitosan-sodium percarbonate-based hydrogels with sustained oxygen release potential stimulated angiogenesis and accelerated wound healing," Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B: Applied Biomaterials 112, no. 1 (2024): e35344. https://doi.org/10.1002/jbm.b.35344. The above article, published online on 9 November 2023 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement between the journal's Editor-in-Chief Danielle Benoit; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The retraction has been agreed following an investigation of the concerns raised by Mycosphaerella arachidis on PubPeer [1], which identified unexpected similarities between multiple panels of Figure 7. More specifically, the images depicting the wounds of animals in the CSPUO₂ and Control groups after 10 days appear identical to the image of the T4-W group after 15 days. Additional concerns have been identified regarding the similarity of the Day 0 and Day 5 panels of the CSPUO₂ group to two panels in Figure 6A from another publication by the author group, where they are attributed to a different experimental condition [2]. As a result of the investigation, the data and conclusions of this article are considered unreliable. The authors disagree with this retraction. REFERENCES: [1] Mycosphaerella arachidis, "Chitosan-sodium percarbonate-based hydrogels with sustained oxygen release potential stimulated angiogenesis and accelerated wound healing," PubPeer, November 2024, https://pubpeer.com/publications/CDB4F612F15EB0A3EC34A7A73D5747. [2] T. S. Waris, S. T. Abbas Shah, A. Mehmood, Z. Iqbal, M. Zehra, A. A. Chaudhry, I. Ur Rehman, and M. Yar, "Design and development of thyroxine/heparin releasing affordable cotton dressings to treat chronic wounds," Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine 16, no. 5 (2022): 460-471. https://doi.org/10.1002/term.3295.