RETRACTION: α-Synuclein regulates neuronal survival via Bcl-2 family expression and PI3/Akt kinase pathway

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RETRACTION: J.-H. Seo, J.-C. Rah, S. H. Choi, J. K. Shin, K. Min, H.-S. Kim, C. H. Park, S. Kim, E.-M. Kim, S.-H. Lee, S. Lee, S. Won Suh, and Y.-H. Suh, “Α-Synuclein regulates neuronal survival via Bcl-2 family expression and PI3/Akt kinase pathway,” The FASEB Journal 16, no. 13 (2002): 1–20, https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.02-0041fje.

The above article, published online on September 5, 2002, in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor-in-Chief, Loren E. Wold; the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology; and Wiley Periodicals LLC.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 duplications within the western blot lanes of Figure 5B and across the lanes of Figures 4A,C and 5A,B. 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 were not available.