Abstract
The following article has been retracted at the request of the Journal Editors and Publisher
Wang W, Yu X, Mo X, Zhang H, Zhu D. Limb ischemic preconditioning attenuates cerebral ischemic injury in rat model. Perfusion. 2013;29(3):210-218. doi:10.1177/0267659113503681
Sage was informed of a Pubpeer post that raised concerns about the images in this article.
The authors failed to provide the raw unedited images and raw underlying data used in the article.
Further investigation revealed that this article contains indicators of 3rd party involvement.
Due to concerns around the author contributions to the article, along with concerns about the data that may impact the findings discussed in the article, Sage and the journal editor retract this article.
The authors did not respond when contacted.