Retraction of: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-10027-4, published online 23 August 2017


The authors have retracted this article.


After publication they became aware of a number of irregularities in the figures, specifically:

  • In Figure 3a the Sham band appears to be identical for the Atrogin-1 and MuRF1 blots

  • In Figure 1d the Sham and CKD panels appear to partially overlap

  • In Figure 4a the Sham and JPYS panels appear to partially overlap


Dongtao Wang, Jianping Chen, Xinhui Liu, and Shunmin Li agree to this retraction. Ping Zheng, Gaofeng Song, and Tiegang Yi did not respond to correspondence about this retraction.