Abstract
At the request of the Publisher and the Journal Editor, the following article is retracted:
Wei J, Wang H, Zhao Q. Circular RNA suppression of vascular smooth muscle apoptosis through the miR-545-3p/CKAP4 axis during abdominal aortic aneurysm formation. Vascular Medicine. 2023;28(2):104-112. doi:10.1177/1358863X221132591
The Editors were contacted by a co-author of this article, requesting to remove their name because they were not involved with the manuscript.
An investigation by the Publisher revealed that this article may have been linked to an unauthorized third party.
Due to concerns around the authorship of this article as well as concerns around potential unauthorized third party involvement, the Publisher and Journal Editor retracts this article.
The authors did not respond to the final notice.