Bioimpacts. 15:32671.
doi: 10.34172/bi.32671
Correction
Correction to: Time dependency of morphological remodeling of endothelial cells in response to substrate stiffness
Zahra Goli-Malekabadi 1, Mohammad Tafazzoli-Shadpour 1, *, Ali Tamayol 2, *, Ehsan Seyedjafari 3
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1Biomedical Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
2Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA
3Department of Biotechnology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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This corrects the article “Time dependency of morphological remodeling of endothelial cells in response to substrate stiffness" published in BioImpacts. 2017;7(1):41-47 (doi: 10.15171/bi.2017.06).
The authors were made aware of strange patterns in live/dead staining micrographs in Figure 5A, B of the paper. The authors acknowledge the concern and, after detailed investigation, could not identify the source of these patterns. As the focus of the study was to determine the time dependency of morphological remodeling of ECs, cell viability results do not affect the novelty and goal of the paper. In addition, in this study, cell viability was also assessed via another method, MTT assay which is not image-based and assesses the entire cell population in the culture (Figure 5C). Therefore, the authors decided to remove Figure 5A, B and the related text (Method & Materials/Cell viability assay, and the first four lines of Results/Cell viability). The removal of live/dead results does not impact the manuscript's conclusion.
Authors confirm that the conclusions of the paper remain unaffected, take full responsibility for this potential mistake, and deeply regret any confusion it may have caused.