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Review Comments for Manuscript: WITHDRAWN: Apelin-13 alleviate inflammatory reaction of ischemia reperfusion in rat kidney transplantation via NF-kappa B signaling pathway

(DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.10.593511)

Recommendation: Do not consider for publication in any form. The preprint has been officially withdrawn and must not be cited or used as scientific reference.

Summary of the manuscript status:

This preprint was posted on bioRxiv on May 14, 2024, but was formally withdrawn shortly thereafter (version 2, posted May 23, 2024) following an official request from the Dean of the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC) at the University of Bologna.

Reason for withdrawal (official statement from bioRxiv):

- The submission was fraudulent, carried out by a third party impersonating Prof. Gaetano La Manna (University of Bologna).

- The corresponding author email was invalid and not the institutional email of Prof. La Manna.

- The listed authors (Irene Capelli, Valeria Aiello, Lorenzo Gasperoni, and Gaetano La Manna) had no knowledge of or involvement in the work.

- The department originally cited in the affiliation (DIMES) was dissolved on December 31, 2022, and no longer exists at the time of submission.

- Note: A real Prof. Gaetano La Manna does exist at the University of Bologna (now in DIMEC, Nephrology), but he is not connected to this manuscript in any way.

Scientific content (for completeness, though irrelevant due to fraud):

Because the manuscript was fraudulently submitted and the listed authors disclaim all responsibility, no legitimate scientific evaluation is possible or appropriate. Any data, methods, results, or conclusions presented cannot be attributed to the named researchers and must be considered unreliable and potentially fabricated by the impersonator.

Additional comments:

- This incident highlights ongoing issues with third-party fraud and impersonation on preprint servers.

- Reviewers, editors, and readers are strongly advised to disregard this preprint entirely and remove any citations if they have inadvertently appeared in other works.

- The DOI remains active for transparency, but the page now displays only the withdrawal notice.

In summary, this is not a legitimate scientific contribution and should play no role in the peer-review process or the scientific record.

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The authors declare that they used generative AI to come up with new ideas for their review.