Expression of Concern for Takano et al., “Vital Role of the Calpain-Calpastatin System for Placental-Integrity-Dependent Embryonic Survival”

Abstract

The American Society for Microbiology and Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) are issuing this Expression of Concern to alert readers to concerns with the data presented in this article. Problems that have been noted are as follows: (i) duplication of Fig. 7 as Fig. 5, (ii) presentation of Fig. 5 as Fig. 4, (iii) omission of Fig. 4, and (iv) missing labels in Fig. 3 and 5. The files uploaded during the final submission of this paper to MCB by the authors represent the source of these figure problems. These problems were brought to the authors' attention; however, a correction to resolve them has not yet been submitted. An update will be published when this matter has been resolved.