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Correction: ZO-1 boosts the in vitro self-renewal of pre-haematopoietic stem cells from OCT4-reprogrammed human hair follicle mesenchymal stem cells through cytoskeleton remodeling
Stem Cell Research & Therapy volume 16, Article number: 126 (2025)
The Original Article was published on 18 December 2024
Stem Cell Research & Therapy (2024) 15:480
The authors of the original article wish to issue a clarification around re-use of two cell images from an earlier paper.
Despite appropriate citation and notification of the same experimental process, in order to uphold academic integrity, the authors wish to clarify that human hair follicle mesenchymal stem cells (hHFMSCs) were transduced with OCT4 after four days, as illustrated in Fig. 1b (red box) of [1]. These cells correspond to the images presented in Fig. 2d (red box) of [2], which were captured on the fifth day following OCT4 induction.
The duplicate images in these two articles illustrate cell morphology following the introduction of OCT4 into hHFMSCs. The authors’ research demonstrated that pre-induction with FLT3-LG/SCF enhanced the production of floating cell subsets, using the cells from the previous experiment as a control.
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Ruan, et al. ZO-1 boosts the in vitro self-renewal of pre-haematopoietic stem cells from OCT4-reprogrammed human hair follicle mesenchymal stem cells through cytoskeleton remodeling. Stem Cell Res Ther. 2024;15:480.
Transdifferentiation of Human Hair Follicle Mesenchymal Stem Cells into Red Blood Cells by OCT4, Stem Cells International, 2015.
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Ruan, Y., Huang, X., Sun, P. et al. Correction: ZO-1 boosts the in vitro self-renewal of pre-haematopoietic stem cells from OCT4-reprogrammed human hair follicle mesenchymal stem cells through cytoskeleton remodeling. Stem Cell Res Ther 16, 126 (2025). https://doiorg.publicaciones.saludcastillayleon.es/10.1186/s13287-025-04259-9
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