Retraction: Obesity Is Associated With Inflammation and Elevated Aromatase Expression in the Mouse Mammary Gland.

Abstract

This article (1) has been retracted at the request of the authors. Following a review by Weill Cornell Medicine, evidence of data falsification or fabrication was found in two figures prepared by Dr. Kotha Subbaramaiah. Suspicious duplications of band images were found in Fig. 3A. In Fig. 10C, it appears that the bottom row of bands has been cut and moved to align directly with the annotations on the top of the page. A copy of this Retraction Notice was sent to the last known e-mail addresses for the 13 authors. Eleven authors (Kotha Subbaramaiah, Louise R. Howe, Priya Bhardwaj, Rhonda K. Yantiss, Xi Kathy Zhou, Victoria A. Blaho, Timothy Hla, Peiying Yang, Levy Kopelovich, Clifford A. Hudis, and Andrew J. Dannenberg) agreed to the retraction; two authors (Baoheng Du and Claudia Gravaghi) did not respond. The authors apologize to the scientific community and deeply regret any inconveniences or challenges resulting from the publication and subsequent retraction of this article.