Retraction Note: Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology (2018) 392:341-348

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00210-018-1595-0

The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article at the Corresponding Author's request. After publication, concerns were raised regarding high similarity of some of the images with those in previously published articles (Bi et al. 2013; Lin et al. 2015; Gao et al. 2013). Specifically:

• Fig. 2a CME+AST and CME+AST+ZnPP images appear to overlap with rotation, and are highly similar to Fig. 1b of (Bi et al. 2013).

• Fig. 2a Sham and CME images appear highly similar to Figs. 5b and 2b, respectively, of (Bi et al. 2013).

• Fig. 3a all panels appear to overlap with Fig. 4a of (Lin et al. 2015).

• Fig. 6a b-actin blot appears highly similar to Fig. 6 b-actin blots in (Gao et al. 2013).

Additionally, the authors have found that the western blot data in Fig. 4a were misused, and stated that some of the other data were presented incorrectly, which undermines the conclusions of this article.

The Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the presented data.

None of the authors have responded to any further correspondence from the publisher about this retraction.