RETRACTION: S. Shahsavandi, M.M. Ebrahimi, K. Sadeghi, S.Z. Mosavi, and A. Mohammadi, “Dose- and Time-Dependent Apoptosis Induced by Avian H9N2 Influenza Virus in Human Cells,” BioMed Research International 2013 (2013): 524165, https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/524165.
The above article, published online on 11 September 2013 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted following the agreement of the journal’s Section Editor, Jinsong Ren; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
The retraction has been agreed following an investigation of the concerns raised by Penicillium citreoviride and Actinopolyspora biskrensis on PubPeer [1], which identified several concerns related to Figure 3 where every panel displays unexpectedly overlapping features.
In addition, concerns have been raised regarding the similarity of the Mock HepG2 cells shown in Figure 1 to the Mock HLM cells in Figure 1 in another publication [2].
As a result of the investigation, the data and conclusions of this article are considered unreliable.
The authors disagree with this retraction.