Retraction Note to: Stem Cell Research & Therapy (2021) 12:115 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13287-021-02183-2

The authors have retracted this article. After publication the authors became aware of issues with two of the figures, specifically:

  • In Fig. 5c the echocardiography images for 1 week and 3 weeks for the MI + HG group had been duplicated owing to an error in the assembly of the figure.

  • In Fig. 3a the bands for Beclin 1 had been constructed by using the bands from P21 in Fig. 2e during assembly of the figure.

All authors agree with this retraction.