Retraction: Downregulation of microRNA-218 is cardioprotective against cardiac fibrosis and cardiac function impairment in myocardial infarction by binding to MITF

Linfeng Qian¹, Shaobo Pan², Liping Shi¹, Yongyi Zhou¹, Lai Sun¹, Zhedong Wan¹, Yufang Ding², Jia Qian²

¹Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310003, PR. China
²Operating Room, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310003, PR. China

Received: August 19, 2021Accepted: September 10, 2021Published: September 14, 2021

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.203548

Copyright: © 2021 Qian et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

This article has been retracted: The authors recently found that the images in Figures 2, 3, 7, 8, and 10 contain errors that cannot be resolved. The authors now feel that the experimental results are not solid enough to support their conclusions. They have therefore made the decision to retract the article with the agreement of all listed authors.

The Administration of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University was notified about the retraction by Aging Journal.