Retraction to: Oncogene https://doi.org/10.1038/onc.2011.365, published online 22 August 2011

The authors have retracted this article as multiple image irregularities have been noted within this article, specifically:

Figure 1A, upper panel (HIF-1a blot), lanes five and seven appear to be duplicates.

Figure 6B, lower panel (b-actin blot), the first six lanes appear to be identical to Fig. 6G, lower panel (b-actin blot).

Figure 3G, the image of the third mouse in the D10 Saline group is identical to the image of the third mouse in the D21 Digoxin group.

G Semenza, CC Wong, P Korangath, L Schito, J Chen, B Krishnamachary, V Raman and S Sukumar agree to this retraction. D Gilkes does not agree to this retraction. H Zhang and W Mitzner have not responded to any correspondence from the editor about this retraction. The editor was not able to obtain current email addresses for H Wei, P Chaturvedi, L Zhen and PT Winnard.