RETRACTION: Spike Protein of SARS-CoV Stimulates Cyclooxygenase-2 Expression via Both Calcium-Dependent and Calcium-Independent Protein Kinase C Pathways.

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M. Liu, Y. Yang, C. Gu, Y. Yue, K. K. Wu, J. Wu, and Y. Zhu, "Spike Protein of SARS-CoV Stimulates Cyclooxygenase-2 Expression via Both Calcium-Dependent and Calcium-Independent Protein Kinase C Pathways," The FASEB Journal 21, no. 7 (2007): 1586-1596, https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.06-6589com. The above article, published online on 31 January 2007, in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor-in-Chief, Loren E. Wold; the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology; and Wiley Periodicals LLC. The retraction has been agreed upon following an investigation into concerns raised by a third party which revealed inappropriate image section duplications within the article (Figures1D, 4B, 5A and B, 6B and C, 7D and 8) and between this (Figure4B) and another article published previously in a different scientific context. Due to the number and the level of errors identified in the published figures, the editors have lost confidence in the presented data and consider the conclusions substantially compromised. The authors have been informed about the concerns, but did not provide an explanation and due to the time elapsed since publication the original raw data are not available.